The aesthetics of shadow : lighting and Japanese cinema / Daisuke Miyao.

Author/creator Miyao, Daisuke author.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Description1 online resource (xi, 381 pages) : illustrations
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Contents What is the aesthetics of shadow? -- Lighting and capitalist-industrial modernity : Shochiku and Hollywood -- Flashes of the sword and the star : Shochiku and Jidaigeki -- Street films : Shochiku and Germany -- The aesthetics of shadow : Shochiku, Toho, and Japan -- The cinematography of Miyagawa Kazuo.
Abstract By exploring the ""aesthetics of shadow"" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century and treating cinematographers and lighting designers as essential collaborators in moviemaking, Daisuke Miyao reinterprets Japanese film history.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 329-364) and index.
LanguageEnglish.
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Miyao, Daisuke. Aesthetics of shadow. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2013 9780822354079 0822354071
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ISBN0822399660 (electronic bk.)
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