Daftar Isi:
  • 9780231102315
  • 352 pages; 9 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
  • Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan`s encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran. Excerpt - page 272: "... failed in the early 1950s, he formed a partnership with Djamaluddin Malik in 1954 to combat the pernicious influence of Malaya. ..."