Dialectics without synthesis : Japanese film theory and realism in a global frame /
"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, Mar...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2020]
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Table of 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.