With careful research and unique first-person observations drawn from years of working within the international industry of Japanese film, the author examines how different generations of Japanese filmmakers engaged and interacted with the structural opportunities and limitations posed by external forces.
Contents
Introduction -- ch. 1. Japanese national identity and "banal" cosmopolitalization -- ch. 2. Internationalization of Japanese cinema : how Japan was different from the West and above Asia before globalization -- ch. 3. Globalization of film finance : the actually existing cosmopolitanisms of Japanese film producers -- ch. 4. Global America? : American-Japanese film co-productions from Shogun (1980) to The grudge 2 (2006) -- ch. 5. Pan-Asian cinema? : the past of Japan-centred regional cosmopolitanism.
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