Writing in Light : The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernardi, Joanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Silent films.
Motion pictures.
Films muets > Japon > Histoire et critique.
Cinema > Japon > Histoire.
Silent films > Japan > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Japan > History.
Japan.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Developing Images, Defining Words
  • First, the Story
  • The Benshi Intervenes
  • A Word about Genre
  • Drawing a Map
  • Women in the Chain Drama
  • 2. Kaeriyama Norimasa and The Glory of Life
  • The First Writers Observe to Learn
  • Aspects of Pure Film
  • Smoke and Mirrors?
  • 3. Reformation in Transition: Toyo Films and the Founding of Taikatsu
  • Urbanization, Foreign Influence, Political Change
  • Foreign Film in Close-Up: Mori Iwao's A Survey of the Moving Pictures, 1919-1920 Kurihara's Toyo Films and the Founding of Taikatsu
  • Challenging Borders
  • 4. The Literary Link: Screenwriter Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
  • Tanizaki and the Screen
  • A New Voice and a Million Allies for Reform Tanizaki' s Taikatsu Film S cripts
  • After Taikatsu
  • 5. Journalistic Discourse and Tanizaki's The Present and Future of the Moving Pictures
  • Film Journalism and the Pure Film Movement, 1913-1917
  • The Gap Widens: Foreign Imports and the Domestic Film Debate The Intellectual Contribution
  • The Present and Future of the Moving Pictures
  • 6. Mayhem, Mischief, and a Certain Esprit de Corps: Amateur Club
  • The Vitality and Vigor of Youth

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