Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran.
| ISBN: | 9780231102315 |
| Publication date: | 22nd February 1996 |
| Author: | Darrell William Davis |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Film and Culture Series |
| Genres: |
Film history, theory or criticism Nationalism International relations Cultural studies |