Browsing by Author "Zahlten, Alexander"
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Animation and Boundlessness
Zahlten, Alexander Nikolas (2013) -
Introduction to The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
Zahlten, Alexander (Duke University Press, 2017-09-15)Just a month before his film won the Palme d’Or at the 1980 Cannes International Film Festival, Kurosawa Akira performed a historic snub at the glamorous Tokyo premiere of Kagemusha. As film producer and media mogul Kadokawa ... -
Re-Viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Japan, 1925-1945
O'Reilly, Sean D. (2015-05-15)In this thesis I use historical films to construct a social history of Japan's tumultuous interwar and wartime periods. I analyze filmic depictions of the Bakumatsu period (1853-1868), Japan's rocky transition to modernity, ...