The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

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Alexander Zahlten

The End of Japanese Cinema

Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

Alexander Zahlten

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English

Duke University Press
06 October 2017

Film theory & criticism; Asian history; Media studies; Cinema industry

In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular industrial genres: Pink Film (independently distributed softcore pornographic films), Kadokawa (big-budget productions as part of a transmedia strategy), and V-Cinema (direct-to-video films). He examines the conditions of these films' production to demonstrate how the media industry itself becomes part of the politics of the media text and to highlight the complex negotiation between media and politics, culture, and identity in Japan. Zahlten points to a different history of film, one in which a once-powerful film industry transformed into becoming only one component within a complex media-mix ecology. In so doing, Zahlten opens new paths for uncovering similar broad processes in other large media societies.

A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

By: Alexander Zahlten
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780822369448
ISBN 10: 0822369443
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 06 October 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

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 *