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Author:

Lewis, Diane Wei, 1979- author.

Title:

Powers of the real : cinema, gender, and emotion in interwar Japan / Diane Wei Lewis.

Publisher:

Published by the Harvard University Asia Center,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1900-1999
Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923, in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Japan--History--20th century.
Emotions in motion pictures.
Sex differences in mass media.
Civilization.
Emotions in motion pictures.
Kanto Earthquake (Japan : 1923) in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Sex differences in mass media.
Japan--Civilization--1912-1926.
Japan--Civilization--1926-1945.
Japan.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.

Contents:

Part I. Backgrounds: the Great Kanto Earthquake and mass media. Great Kanto Earthquake documentary films and the state -- The testimony of the body: Nikkatsu's earthquake melodrama films -- "Realism" and modernity -- Part II. The power of cinema. identification and emotion: Desire and identification: the aspiring actress problem -- Intimacy and alienation: Murayama Tomoyoshi, modern media celebrity, and film -- Expressive excess: gendered bodies and proletarian texts.

Summary:

"Examines the rise of cinema as a mass medium in Japan after the Great Kanto Earthquake, connecting the disaster to the new salience of emotion in public discourse, popular culture, and film and tracing how new forms of intimacy and emotion shaped by mass media became a major focus of cinematic discourse in the 1920s"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 424

ISBN:

0674241169
9780674241169
0674241150
9780674241152

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1088665533

LCCN:

2018057676

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)