A Companion to Japanese Cinema
Scholars from Japan, the US and Europe are brought together, bringing a host of new and exciting research into previously under-explored and little-known aspects of one of the world's most intriguing and popular cinemas. One will find herein a new overview of the history of Japanese anime, along with a discussion of what it is that anime actually does. Under-studied directors, like Uchida Tomu and Yoshimura Kozaburo; a new appreciation of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema of the 1950s from the point of view of little-known stars and genres; a new appreciation of women in the films of Kurosawa to a history of women's cinema in Japan, and the most sustained analysis yet of Kawase Naomi, the most important woman director in Japanese film history. Here, too find the relationship between electricity, railroads and the growth of Japanese cinema. And the volume brings us up to date wirth a sustained discussion of the Japanese media response to the disaster of 3/11.
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