Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s 9780824863746

"Devastated by the 1923 earthquake, Tokyo re-built itself in symbiosis with an image of modernity concocted by its

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Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
9780824863746

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Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. The Creation of Modern Space
2. Vernacular Meanings of Genre: The Middle-Class Film
3. Embodying the Modern
4. Imaging Modern Girls in the Japanese Woman’s Film
5. The Japanese Modern in Film Style
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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