readings for EARLY JAPANESE CINEMA: BENSHI & PERIOD FILMS

Week 2/Oct 13^th Lecture and Discussion

Required Readings:

Burch, Noel. “A Machine Appears”, “a Rule and its Ubiquity” & “Bulwarks of Tradition”, To The Distant Observer: Form And Meaning In Japanese Cinema, University of California Press, 1979, p57-60 & p67-88

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NOTE: please do NOT share it beyond the classroom use.

Richie, Donald, A Hundred Years Of Japanese Film, Kodansha International, revised edition, 2005, p 17-32

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Reference Readings:

Gerow, Aaron. “Introduction,” Visions Of Japanese Modernity: Articulations Of Cinema, Nation And Spectatorship, 1895-1925, University of California Press, 2010, p1-39
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J. L. Anderson, “Japanese Swordfighters and American Gunfighters”, Cinema Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring, 1973), pp. 1-21

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