Japanese Transnational Cinema

• Other Authors: Centeno, Marcos (Editor), Morita, Nori (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: The arts; Films, cinema; Shakespeare; Kurosawa; Macbeth; films; translation; transcultural; Noh; tragedy; fate; guilt; contemporary Japanese cinema; cultural blending; intertextuality; mise en abyme; Nobuhiro Suwa; transculturality; (trans)national cinema; national cinema; transnational Japanese film; taiyōzoku; mukokuseki; 'kimono effect'; youth icons; postwar film festivals; cartoon movie; Japan and Spain; transnational imagery; film studies; ideological analysis; ideology; Japanese cinema; nation; New Left; New Wave; Nuberu Bagu; Yoshida Kiju; Naomi Kawase; cinema of place; women directors; art cinema; international film festivals; female authorship; auteur; metamorphosis; animation; Franz Kafka; cinematic picture; film aesthetics; theory of beauty; ikebana; kire; geidō; film philosophy; Japanese aesthetics; transcultural thinking; Ri Koran; Li Xianglan; Yamaguchi Yoshiko; transnationality; Japanese Empire; propaganda films; n/a
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The aim of this Special Issue lies in expanding contemporary discussions on Japanese Cinema and its transnational aspects by applying new critical methodologies and stances and in revealing the contradictions inherent in the way the old paradigm of 'National Cinema' has traditionally been...