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Making Icons : Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964 /

One distinctive feature of post-war Japanese cinema is the frequent recurrence of imagistic and narrative tropes and formulaic characterizations in female representations. These repetitions are important, Jennifer Coates asserts, because sentiments and behaviors forbidden during the war and post-war...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coates, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Post-war stars and the Japanese studio system
  • 2. The suffering mother trope
  • 3. Post-war housewives and the tsuma-mono
  • 4. Schoolgirls and bourgeois daughters
  • 5. Women in the public sphere
  • 6. Theorizing excess and the abject
  • 7. Bodies of excess
  • Conclusion.