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Cinema of discontent : representations of Japan's high-speed growth
- Title
- Cinema of discontent : representations of Japan's high-speed growth / Tomoyuki Sasaki.
- Author
- Sasaki, Tomoyuki
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- x, 275 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan's postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success"--
- Series Statement
- The SUNY series, horizons of cinema
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253), filmography (pages 255-260) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Narrating high-speed growth through film -- Drifting in Tokyo: reconstruction and uneven development in Kawashima Yūzō's Susaki paradise red light (1956) -- A girl from Izu: labor migration and modern subjectivity in Masumura Yasuzō's Blue-sky girl (1957) -- Osaka, city of spies: the powerless worker in industrial society in Inoue Akira's Black weapon (1964) -- Yokohama romance: the Cold War, revolution, and Asian solidarity in Ezaki Mio's A warm misty night (1967) -- Waiting for spring in Shiretoko: a postscript to high-speed growth in Kumashiro Tatsumi's the Light of Africa (1975) -- Coda
- Call Number
- MFL 23-412
- ISBN
- 9781438490991
- 1438490992
- LCCN
- 2022013458
- OCLC
- 1330689785
- Author
- Sasaki, Tomoyuki, author.
- Title
- Cinema of discontent : representations of Japan's high-speed growth / Tomoyuki Sasaki.
- Publisher
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The SUNY series, horizons of cinemaSUNY series, horizons of cinema.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253), filmography (pages 255-260) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- MFL 23-412