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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789971103321

Autore

Tezuka Yoshiharu

Titolo

Japanese cinema goes global [[electronic resource] ] : filmworkers' journeys / / Yoshiharu Tezuka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2012

ISBN

988-220-928-9

988-8053-87-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

TransAsia: screen cultures

Disciplina

791.430952

Soggetti

Motion picture industry - Japan - History

Motion pictures and globalization - Japan

Motion pictures - Social aspects - Japan

Culture and globalization - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- ch. 1. Japanese national identity and "banal" cosmopolitalization -- ch. 2. Internationalization of Japanese cinema : how Japan was different from the West and above Asia before globalization -- ch. 3. Globalization of film finance : the actually existing cosmopolitanisms of Japanese film producers -- ch. 4. Global America? : American-Japanese film co-productions from Shogun (1980) to The grudge 2 (2006) -- ch. 5. Pan-Asian cinema? : the past of Japan-centred regional cosmopolitanism.

Sommario/riassunto

Japan's film industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent decades, as international consumer forces and transnational talent have brought unprecedented engagement with global trends. With careful research and also unique first-person observations drawn from years of working within the international industry of Japanese film, the author aims to examine how different generations of Japanese filmmakers engaged and interacted with the structural opportunities and limitations posed by external forces, and how their subjectivity has been shaped by their transnational experiences and has changed as a result. Having been through the globalization of the last part of the twentieth century, are Japanese themselves and overseas consumers of



Japanese culture really becoming more cosmopolitan? If so, what does it mean for Japan's national culture and the traditional sense of national belonging among Japanese people?