Alexander Zahlten is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and coeditor of Media Theory in Japan, also published by Duke University Press.
The End of Japanese Cinema is an innovative account of some significant currents within modern Japanese film which have tended to be marginalised. -- Alexander Jacoby * Sight & Sound * Deeply thought-provoking. . . . Alexander Zahlten's study represents a major scholarly contribution to the fields of Japanese film and media studies and allied disciplines. The End of Japanese Cinema is a remarkable achievement in the scholarship of film and media, both from and in Japan. -- Rea Amit * Film Quarterly * Provocative. -- Etsuo Kono * Japan News * A rich historical analysis. Recommended. -- S. Pepper * Choice *