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The crisis of identity in contemporary Japanese film : personal, cultural, national /
"This study, from a variety of analytical approaches, examines ways in which contemporary Japanese film presents a critical engagement with Japan's project of modernity to demonstrate the 'crisis' in conceptions of identity. The work discusses gender, the family, travel, the ...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Brill's Japanese studies library ;
v. 30. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "This study, from a variety of analytical approaches, examines ways in which contemporary Japanese film presents a critical engagement with Japan's project of modernity to demonstrate the 'crisis' in conceptions of identity. The work discusses gender, the family, travel, the 'everyday' as horror, and ways in which animated films can offer an ideal space in which an ideal conception of identity may emerge and thrive. It presents close, theoretically-informed textual analyses of the thematic issues contemporary Japanese films raise, through a wide range of genres, from comedy, family drama, and animation, to science fiction and horror by directors such as Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Morita Yoshimitsu, Miike Takashi, Oshii Mamoru, Kon Satoshi, and Miyazaki Hayao, in language that is accessible but precise."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047424697 9047424697 1282400355 9781282400351 9786612400353 6612400358 |
| ISSN: | 0925-6512 ; |