Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi

This book looks at some of the key genres in Japanese cinema since 1997. In several cases it considers in detail the ways in which individual films have both drawn and departed from those films that have comprised the key works and trends in these generic categories, and in others it looks at some significant recent developments that have little real precedence in filmmaking in Japan. Through close textual analysis of representative films, the study seeks to elucidate the prevalence of repetition and variation in contemporary Japanese genre cinema, to understand some of the reasons behind this paradigm, and analyze where relevant how and to what extent new modes or generic groups fit into the schema. In so doing it seeks for the first time in English language discourse to offer an academic appreciation and overview of popular Japanese of the last two decades.

Author: Adam Bingham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 06/23/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780748683734

About the Author

Adrian Bingham is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sheffield. He has written widely about the popular press, including Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain (OUP, 2004), Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-78 (OUP, 2009), and, with Professor Martin Conboy, Tabloid Century: The Popular Press in Britain, 1896 to the present (Peter Lang, 2015).