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Book Description
From the late 1920s through World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan. Detailing the way Japanese directors, scriptwriters, company officials, and bureaucrats colluded to produce films that supported the war effort, The Imperial Screen is a highly-readable account of the realities of cultural life in wartime Japan. Widely hailed as "epoch-making" by the Japanese press, it presents the most comprehensive survey yet published of "national policy" films, relating their montage and dramatic structures to the cultural currents, government policies, and propaganda goals of the era. Peter B. High's treatment of the Japanese film world as a microcosm of the entire sphere of Japanese wartime culture demonstrates what happens when conscientious artists and intellectuals become enmeshed in a totalitarian regime.
English language edition is revised and expanded from the original Japanese
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945 (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945 (Wisconsin Studies in Film),Peter B. High,University of Wisconsin Press,0299181340,Asia - Japan,Film & Video - General,History,History: World,Japan,Military - World War II,Motion pictures,Motion pictures and the confli,Motion pictures and the conflict,Motion pictures and the war,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1,Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945,World War, 1939-1945
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