The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan

Eric Cazdyn

Published by Duke University Press 2002

The Flash of Capital

Film and Geopolitics in Japan

Eric Cazdyn
Edited by: Rey Chow , Harry Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi

In the series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383918

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About this book

Relates the history of Japanese film to the history of the capitalist transformation of Japan.

Author / Editor information

Eric Cazdyn is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Film, and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

“Cazdyn’s work is original, unique, and provocative. He asks hard questions, makes surprising connections, and as a result forces us to rethink the relationship of the aesthetic and the social in Japanese modernity.”—Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, author of Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema

“This book redesigns the way in which Japanese cinema must be approached, taking into account the ‘longer term’ dynamics of economic formations as well as the way Japan is stitched into ‘global’ contemporary processes.”—Paul Willemen, author of Looks and Frictions: Essays in Cultural Studies and Film Theory

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Relation: Film, Capital, Transformation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
II. Historiography: Nation, Narrative, Capital Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
III. Adaptation: Origin, Nation, Aesthetic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
IV. Acting: Structure, Agent, Amateur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
V. Pornography: Totality, Reality Culture, Films of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
VI. Re-reading: Canon, Body, Geopolitics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 330
Illustrations
- Other: 72 illus.

eBook

Published: November 4, 2002
ISBN: 9780822383918