Dialectics without synthesis Japanese film theory and realism in a global frame / Naoki Yamamoto.

Author/creator Yamamoto, Naoki, 1977-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Descriptionpages cm
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Contents Introduction : realism, film theory, Japanese cinema -- Naturalism and the modernization of Japanese cinema -- Machine aesthetics and proletarian realism -- Literary adaptation and textual realism -- Documentary film and epistemological realism -- The neglected tradition of Bergsonism and phenomenology -- Epilogue : Hanada Kiyoteru and postwar debates.
Abstract "Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2020010082
ISBN9780520351790 (cloth)
ISBN9780520351806 (paperback)
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