Japanese Cinema Goes Global: Filmworkers' Journeys
Yoshiharu Tezuka
Abstract
Japan's film industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent decades, as international consumer forces and transnational talent have brought unprecedented engagement with global trends. With careful research and unique first-person observations drawn from years of working within the international industry of Japanese film, this book aims to examine how different generations of Japanese filmmakers engaged and interacted with the structural opportunities and limitations posed by external forces, and how their subjectivity has been shaped by their transnational experiences and has changed as ... More
Keywords: Japanese, cinema, industrial history, filmmakers, cinematographers, producers, studio, transnational experiences, cultural flows
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9789888083329 |
| Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888083329.001.0001 |
