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Livre 75 sur 77: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

Mes, Tom

 
9781032387956: Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video
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ISBN 10 : 1032387955 ISBN 13 : 9781032387956
Editeur : Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films. It examines how studios and directors worked quickly to capitalize on niche markets or upcoming and current trends, and how as a result this period of history in Japanese cinema was an exceptionally diverse and vibrant film scene. It highlights how, although the V-Cinema industry declined from around 1995, the explosion in quantity and variety of such movies established and cemented many specific genres of Japanese film. Importantly the book argues that film scholars who have long looked down on video as a substandard medium without scholarly interest have been wrong to do so, and that V-Cinema challenges accepted notions of cultural value, providing insight into the formation of cinematic canons and inviting us to rethink what is meant by "Japanese cinema".

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À propos de l'auteur

Tom Mes is a Lecturer at Keio University, Japan

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1032387955
ISBN 13 
9781032387956
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
196
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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