Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema by Joanne Bernardi, Sho... - 9781138685529

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Routledge Handbook of Japanese CinemaAuthor(s): Joanne Bernardi, Shota T. Ogawa\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138685529, 978-1138685529\nSynopsis\nThe Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema provides a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, through cutting-edge scholarship that reflects the hybridity of approaches defining the field. \n\nThe volumes twenty-one chapters represent work by authors with diverse backgrounds and expertise, recasting traditional questions of authorship, genre, and industry in broad conceptual frameworks such as gender, media theory, archive studies, and neoliberalism. The volume is divided into four parts, each representing an emergent area of inquiry: \n\n\""Decentring Classical Cinema\"" \n\n\""Questions of Industry\"" \n\n\""Intermedia as an Approach\""\n\n\""The Object Life of Film\"" \n\nThis is the first anthology of Japanese cinema scholarship to span the temporal frame.