By Catherine Russell
ISBN-10: 0822342901
ISBN-13: 9780822342908
ISBN-10: 0822343126
ISBN-13: 9780822343127
Naruse was once a studio-based director, a firm guy well known for bringing movies in on funds and on time. in the course of his lengthy occupation, he directed videos in numerous kinds of melodrama whereas showing a amazing continuity of tone. His motion pictures have been in line with quite a few eastern literary assets and unique scripts; just about all of them have been set in modern Japan. Many have been “women’s films.” that they had lady protagonists, and so they depicted women’s passions, disappointments, workouts, and residing stipulations. whereas neither Naruse or his audiences pointed out themselves as “feminist,” his movies time and again foreground, if now not problem, the inflexible gender norms of eastern society. Given the complicated historic and important concerns surrounding Naruse’s cinema, a complete learn of the director calls for an leading edge and interdisciplinary process. Russell attracts at the serious reception of Naruse in Japan as well as the cultural theories of Harry Harootunian, Miriam Hansen, and Walter Benjamin. She indicates that Naruse’s videos have been key texts of jap modernity, either within the ways in which they portrayed the altering roles of jap girls within the public sphere and of their depiction of an city, industrialized, mass-media-saturated society.
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