Powers of the real : cinema, gender, and emotion in interwar Japan.

"Examines the rise of cinema as a mass medium in Japan after the Great Kanto Earthquake, connecting the disaster to the new salience of emotion in public discourse, popular culture, and film and tracing how new forms of intimacy and emotion shaped by mass media became a major focus of cinematic...

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Author / Creator: Lewis, Diane Wei, 1979-
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: [Place of publication not identified] : Brill Academic Publishers : Brill, 2021.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 424.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Backgrounds: the Great Kanto Earthquake and mass media: Great Kanto Earthquake documentary films and the state
  • The testimony of the body: Nikkatsu's earthquake melodrama films
  • "Realism" and modernity
  • Part II. The power of cinema: identification and emotion: Desire and identification: the aspiring actress problem
  • Intimacy and alienation: Murayama Tomoyoshi, modern media celebrity, and film
  • Expressive excess: gendered bodies and proletarian texts.