The Japanese Cinema Book

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<i>The Japanese Cinema Book</i> provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world¿s most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date.Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira Kurosawa to neglected popular genres such as the film musical and encompassing topics such as ecology, spectatorship, home-movies, colonial history and relations with Hollywood and Europe, <i>The Japanese Cinema Book</i> presents a set of new, and often surprising, perspectives on Japanese film.With its plural range of interdisciplinary perspectives based on the expertise of established and emerging scholars and critics, <i>The Japanese Cinema Book</i> provides a groundbreaking picture of the different ways in which Japanese cinema may be understood as a local, regional, national, transnational and global ph