Includes bibliographical references (pages 209- 223) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : realism, film theory, Japanese cinema -- Naturalism and the modernization of Japanese cinema -- Machine aesthetics and proletarian realism -- Literary adaptation and textual realism -- Documentary film and epistemological realism -- The neglected tradition of Bergsonism and phenomenology -- Epilogue : Hanada Kiyoteru and postwar debates.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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