Zahlten Alexander Zahlten

End of Japanese Cinema (eBook, PDF)

Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372462
• Artikelnr.: 54792281

Autorenporträt

Alexander Zahlten

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. Establishing Pink Film  25
2. Pink Times and Pink Spaces  63
3. Kadokawa Film  96
4. The Radicalization of Kadokawa Film  122
5. V-Cinema  152
6. Subgenres: Violence, Finances, Sex, and True Accounts  176
Conclusion: Present Histories  204
Notes  225
Bibliography  273
Index  285