Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies) (Volume 53) - Softcover

LaMarre, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1929280335 ISBN 13: 9781929280339

Publisher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies, 2005

Synopsis

In recent years, the impact of new media and new technologies has renewed interest in the emergence of cinema and film criticism. Yet studies to date have focused almost exclusively on western cinema and problems of western modernity. Shadows on the Screen offers a challenging new reevaluation of these issues. In addition to extensively annotated translations of the long-neglected film work of the celebrated Japanese writer, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, LaMarre offers a series of commentaries with an original and sustained analysis of how Tanizaki grappled with the temporal paradoxes of non-western modernity in his film work. Written largely between 1917 and 1926, Tanizaki's film stories and screenplays continue to delight and disturb readers with their exploration of the racial and sexual perversion implicit in the newly cinematized modern world.

About this edition

• Publisher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1929280335
• ISBN 13: 9781929280339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424