The culture of the sound image in prewar Japan / edited by Michael Raine and Johan Nordström.

This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the interrelationship of aesthetics, technology, and cultural modernity in prewar Japan. Putting the cinema at the center of a "culture of the sound image&...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Nordström, Johan (Editor), Raine, Michael (Editor), Nordström, Johan, cinema (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Michael Raine and Johan Nordström
  • 1. A Genealogy of Kouta eiga: Silent Moving Pictures with Sound / Sasagawa Keiko
  • 2. Katsutarō's Trilogy: Popular Song and Film in the Transitional Era from Silent Film to the Talkie / Hosokawa Shuhei
  • 3. Japanese Cinema and the Radio: The Sound Space of Unseen Cinema / Niita Chie
  • 4. Architecture of Sound: The Modernization of Cinematic Space in Japan / Ueda Manabu
  • 5. No Interpreter, Full Volume: The benshi and the sound transition in 1930s Japan / Michael Raine
  • 6. The Image of the Modern Talkie Film Studio: Aesthetics and Technology at P.C.L. / Johan Nordström
  • 7. The Dawn of the Talkies in Japan: Mizoguchi Kenji's Hometown / Nagato Yohei, translated by Michael Raine
  • 8. The Early talkie frame in Japanese cinema / Itakura Fumiaki.