Dialectics without Synthesis

Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-35179-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan’s active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yamamoto, Naoki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Realism, Film Theory, Japanese Cinema

1. Naturalism and the Modernization of Japanese Cinema

2. The Machine Aesthetic and Proletarian Realism
3. Literary Adaptation and Textual Realism
4. Documentary Film and Epistemological Realism
5. Neglected Traditions of Bergsonism and Phenomenology
Epilogue: Hanada Kiyoteru and Postwar Debates

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Naoki Yamamoto is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.