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Paradoxical Japaneseness

Cultural Representation in 21st Century Japanese Cinema

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Dorman

    1. Auldgirth, United Kingdom

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  • Explores the impact of transnational production practices in Japanese cinema
  • Provides insightful analysis of cultural representation in Japanese films
  • Features a range of textual and empirical analysis

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Dorman
    Pages 1-20

  3. Cultural Specificity and Globalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Cultural Specificity and Globalization

      • Andrew Dorman
      Pages 23-60

  4. Cultural Concealment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. (Cult)ural Hybridity

      • Andrew Dorman
      Pages 63-100

    3. Concealing Japan in J Horror

      • Andrew Dorman
      Pages 101-132

  5. Cultural Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Utilizing International Film Festivals

      • Andrew Dorman
      Pages 135-169

    3. Twenty-First-Century Jidaigeki and Commercial Ownership

      • Andrew Dorman
      Pages 171-201

    4. Conclusions

      • Andrew Dorman
      Pages 203-216

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 217-224
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This book offers insightful analysis of cultural representation in Japanese cinema of the early 21st century. The impact of transnational production practices on films such as Dolls (2002), Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009), and 13 Assassins (2010) is considered through textual and empirical analysis. The author discusses contradictory forms of cultural representation – cultural concealment and cultural performance – and their relationship to both changing practices in the Japanese film industry and the global film market. Case studies take into account popular genres such as J Horror and jidaigeki period films, as well as the work of renowned filmmakers Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Miike, Shinya Tsukamoto and Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

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  • Auldgirth, United Kingdom

    Andrew Dorman

About the author

Andrew Dorman is a freelance writer and English language tutor who received a PhD in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews, UK. He has taught film studies at the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, and writes on a range of subjects including Japanese cinema and sexuality in film.

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