Powers of the real : cinema, gender, and emotion in interwar Japan.

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lewis, Diane Wei, 1979-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Brill Academic Publishers : Brill, 2021.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 424.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923, in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Japan > History > 20th century.
Emotions in motion pictures.
Sex differences in mass media.
Tremblement de terre du Kantō, Japon, 1923, au cinéma.
Cinéma > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Émotions au cinéma.
Différences entre sexes dans les médias.
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.
Japon > Civilisation > 1912-1926.
Japon > Civilisation > 1926-1945.
Japan
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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