Dialectics without synthesis Japanese film theory and realism in a global frame /
Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2020]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages) illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780520975903 0520975901 |
