Classical Japanese Cinema
by
Catherine Russell
Call Number: 791.430952/31
ISBN: 9781441133274
Publication Date: 2011-06-16
Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modelled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period, from roughly 1930 to 1960. Respectful and thoroughly informed about the aesthetics and critical values of the Japanese canon, Russell is also critical of some of its ideological tendencies, and her analyses provide new insights on class and gender dynamics. Catherine Russell demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema, treating it with fewer auteurist and Orientalist assumptions than many other scholars and critics.