Description: End of Japanese Cinema : Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies, Paperback by Zahlten, Alexander, ISBN 0822369443, ISBN-13 9780822369448, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular industrial genres: Pink Film (independently distributed softcore pornographic films), Kadokawa (big-budget productions as part of a transmedia strategy), and V-Cinema (direct-to-video films). He examines the conditions of these films' production to demonstrate how the media industry itself becomes part of the politics of the media text and to highlight the complex negotiation between media and politics, culture, and identity in Japan. Zahlten points to a different history of film, one in which a once-powerful film industry transformed into becoming only one component within a complex media-mix ecology. In so doing, Zahlten opens new paths for uncovering similar broad processes in other large media societies. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Book Title: End of Japanese Cinema : Industrial Genres, National Times, and M
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: End of Japanese Cinema : Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Media Studies, Asia / Japan, Film / History & Criticism
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Alexander Zahlten
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science, History
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
