Daisuke Miyao

The Aesthetics of Shadow

Lighting and Japanese Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

By exploring the "aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century and treating cinematographers and lighting designers as essential collaborators in moviemaking, Daisuke Miyao reinterprets Japanese film history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 243mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354079
• ISBN-10: 0822354071
• Artikelnr.: 36147848

Autorenporträt

Daisuke Miyao is Associate Professor of Japanese Film/Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. What is the Aesthetics of Shadow? 1
1. Lighting and Capitalist-Industrial Modernity: Shochiku and Hollywood 15
2. Flashes of the Sword and the Star: Shochiku and Jidaigeki 67
3. Street Films: Shochiku and Germany 119
4. The Aesthetics of Shadow: Shochiku, Tohu, and Japan 173
Conclusion. The Cinematography of Miyagawa Kazuo 255
Notes 283
Bibliography 329
Index 365