ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema provides a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, through cutting-edge scholarship that reflects the hybridity of approaches defining the field.
The volume’s twenty-one chapters represent work by authors with diverse backgrounds and expertise, recasting traditional questions of authorship, genre, and industry in broad conceptual frameworks such as gender, media theory, archive studies, and neoliberalism. The volume is divided into four parts, each representing an emergent area of inquiry:
- "Decentring Classical Cinema"
- "Questions of Industry"
- "Intermedia as an Approach"
- "The Object Life of Film"
This is the first anthology of Japanese cinema scholarship to span the temporal framework of 200 years, from the vibrant magic lantern culture of the nineteenth century, through to the formation of the film industry in the twentieth century, and culminating in cinema’s migration to gaming, surveillance video, and other new media platforms of the twenty-first century.
This handbook will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Japanese studies, film studies, and cultural studies more broadly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|102 pages
Decentering classical cinema
chapter 2|20 pages
Beyond Mt. Fuji and the Lenin Cap
chapter 3|17 pages
Home Movies of the Revolution
chapter 4|13 pages
When Marnie was There
part II|61 pages
Questions of industry
chapter 7|15 pages
Kaiju Films as Exportable Content
chapter 8|13 pages
“Fugitives” from the Studio System
part III|108 pages
Intermedia as an approach
chapter 11|21 pages
Utsushi-e
chapter 12|15 pages
“Inter-Mediating” Global Modernity
chapter 14|16 pages
Marionettes No Longer
chapter 15|16 pages
Rhetorics of Autonomy and Mobility in Japanese “AAA” Games
chapter 16|16 pages
Pointing Through the Screen
part IV|88 pages
The object life of film