The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide between the West and Japan, even in realms of technological activity that are quite evidently dispersed across cultures. Film and media studies are not immune to this trend. They continue to fret over the "Westernness" of film technologies vis-`a-vis the apparently self-evident "Japaneseness" of other modes of cultural production. The main goal of The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema is to counter this trend toward dichotomizing the West and Japan and to challenge the pervasive culturalism of today's film and media studies. This volume addresses productive debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, and where Japanese cinema is going at the period of crisis of national boundary under globalization. In order to do so, this volume attempts to foster dialogue between Japanese scholars of Japanese cinema, film scholars of Japanese cinema based in Anglo-American and European countries, film scholars of non-Japanese cinema, film archivists, film critics, and filmmakers familiar with film scholarship.
About the AuthorDaisuke Miyao is Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, which was awarded the 2007 Book Award in History from the Association of Asian American Studies.
ReviewsOxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema can be useful even for scholars in Film Theory with a minor interest for Japan or Asia. Let's hope this excellent Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema will be translated into other languages, including...Japanese! * Yves Laberge, newbooks.asia *
The Oxford Handbook is, quite simply, the new essential text in the study of Japanese cinema. * Jonathan Wroot, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema *
Book InformationISBN 9780199731664
Author Daisuke MiyaoFormat Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press Inc
Series Oxford HandbooksWeight(grams) 1018g
Dimensions(mm) 253mm * 185mm * 41mm