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Dialectics without Synthesis : Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame
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Title
Dialectics without Synthesis : Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame / Naoki Yamamoto.
ISBN
9780520975903
Publication
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (248 p.)
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In English.
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Summary
Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Realism, Film Theory, Japanese Cinema
1. Naturalism and the Modernization of Japanese Cinema
2. The Machine Aesthetic and Proletarian Realism
3. Literary Adaptation and Textual Realism
4. Documentary Film and Epistemological Realism
5. Neglected Traditions of Bergsonism and Phenomenology
Epilogue: Hanada Kiyoteru and Postwar Debates
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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