Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode

• Andere auteurs: Centeno, Marcos (Redacteur), Raine, Michael (Redacteur)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Onderwerpen: Music; ethnofiction; Japan; documentary; non-fiction; dramatization; Minamata disease; Tsuchimoto Noriaki; W. Eugene Smith; Ishimure Michiko; ethics of representation; The Children of Minamata are Living; Minamata: The Victims and Their World; authorship; documentary film; hibakusha; Japanese cinema; Mizoguchi Kenji; semi-documentary; Shindō Kaneto; film theory; documentary film theory; postwar Japan; post-1945 Japan; Hani Susumu; cinéma verité; direct cinema; observational documentary; cinematography; the culture film; Imamura Shōhei; History of Post-War Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess; fiction and documentary; history; memory; experience; magic lantern; popular history movement; avant-garde documentary; new Left; Teshigahara Hiroshi; Adachi Masao; subjectivity; landscapes; folklore studies; documentary photography; n/a
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Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's contribution to the representation of real life in cinema and related forms. Donald Richie, who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the West, even claimed that Japan did not have a...