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- Provides a theoretically-rich treatment of Japan’s historical new media contexts
- Focuses on films that are widely known and easily accessible
- Emphasizes the importance of global film culture to the constitution of local film practices, while simultaneously underscoring the relevance that these practices hold for theoretical discussions pertinent to film studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the rich complexity of Japan’s film history by tracing how cinema has been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement within a shifting media ecology. Focusing on techniques that draw attention to the interval between frames on the filmstrip, something that is generally obscured in narrative film, Lee uncovers a chief mechanism by which, from its earliest period, the medium has capitalized on its materiality to instantiate its contemporaneity. In doing so, cinema has bound itself tightly with adjacent visual forms such as anime and manga to redefine itself across its history of interaction with new media, including television, video, and digital formats. Japanese Cinema Between Frames is a bold examination of Japanese film aesthetics that reframes the nation’s cinema history, illuminating processes that have both contributed to the unique texture of Japanese films and yoked the nation’s cinema to the global sphere of film history.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Laura Lee
About the author
Laura Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japanese Cinema Between Frames
Authors: Laura Lee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66373-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66372-2Published: 22 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88228-4Published: 01 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66373-9Published: 08 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 177
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Cinema and TV, Asian Culture, Film Theory, Global Cinema and TV, Close Reading