Tanizaki Jun'ichiro on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/12/2005
In recent years, the impact of new media and new technologies has renewed interest in the emergence of cinema and film criticism. Yet studies to date have focused almost exclusively on Western cinema and problems of Western modernity. Shadows on the Screen offers a challenging new reevaluation of these issues. In addition to extensively annotated translations of the long-neglected film work of the celebrated Japanese writer, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Thomas LaMarre offers a series of commentaries with an original and sustained analysis of how Tanizaki grappled with the temporal paradoxes of non-Western modernity in his film work. Written largely between 1917 and 1926, Tanizaki's film stories and screenplays continue to delight and disturb readers with their exploration of the racial and sexual perversion implicit in the newly cinematized modern world. Read in conjunction with his film work, Tanizaki's "Orientalist" essays betray their cinematic sources, revealing the profound links between traditionalism and cinematic modernism, between national identity and colonial ambivalence. Through the translation and analysis of Tanizaki's film work, Shadows on the Screen provides an invaluable historical and conceptual guide both to the emergence of cinema and film criticism in Japan and to the problem of Japanese modernity.
- ISBN:
- 9781929280322
- 9781929280322
- Category:
- Philosophy: aesthetics
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 30-12-2005
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 228.6x152.4x27.94mm
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