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Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of ...

Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of ...

Rey Chow

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, "The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of Film Studies and the Postcolonial World Order," Japan in the World 1 Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto's enumeration of the problematic elements of the national cinema paradigm in ...
Cinematic Cuts: Theorizing Film Endings

Cinematic Cuts: Theorizing Film Endings

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Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, in his magisterial monograph on Kurosawa, examines space in the film in social and historical terms, to great effect. However here, for reasons I will go on to provide, I consider space in more formal terms. See Mitsuhiro ...
Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North ...

Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North ...

Kerstin Knopf

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto reasons that this self/other opposition does “not only fix the non-West as the object to be appropriated, but also transform[s] serious political issues into bad philosophical questions,” and that it furthermore is a.
Asian Cinemas: A Reader And Guide

Asian Cinemas: A Reader And Guide

Dimitris Eleftheriotis

THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING RADICAL: THE DISCIPLINE OF FILM STUDIES AND THE POST-COLONIAL WORLD ORDER Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto DISCOURSE ON THE OTHER Dilemmas of Western Film Scholars? Writing about national ...
Melodrama and Asian Cinema

Melodrama and Asian Cinema

Wimal Dissanayake

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Melodrama has been one of the film genres that have been extensively studied and analyzed in the past two decades. Because of the enormous popularity of this generic form in the classical period of the American film ...
Shakespeare and World Cinema

Shakespeare and World Cinema

Mark Thornton Burnett

4-7; Dimitris Eleftheriotis, 'Introduction', in Dimitris Eleftheriotis and Gary Needham, eds., Asian Cinemas: a Reader and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), p. 1; and Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, 'National/International/ Transnational: the ...
The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 16, Number 2 (Fall 2011)

The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 16, Number 2 (Fall 2011)

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Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, “National/International/Transnational,” 254–61. 22. Ibid., 259. 23. Paul Willemen, “The National Revisited,” 30. As Willemen acknowledges , this line echoes with Tom Nairn's idea that “nationality is not in the genes; but is  ...
Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational ...

Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational ...

Rob Wilson

3 See, for instance, Joseph J. Tobin, ed., Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992 ); and Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, "The Postmodern and Mass Images in Japan," Public  ...
Kurosawa: film studies and Japanese cinema

Kurosawa: film studies and Japanese cinema

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

Assistant directors: Nonagase Samaji, Tajitsu Tairyo, Sakano Yoshimitsu, Sano Takashi, Matsue Yoichi, and Takase ... Mihashi Tatsuya (his son Tatsuo), Shimura Takashi (Moriyama), Nishimura Akira (Shirai), Fujiwara Kamatari (Wada ), Sugai ...
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema

Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

This work will become not only the newly definitive study of Kurosawa, but will redefine the field of Japanese cinema studies, particularly as the field exists in the west. "A tour-de-force reading of Kurosawa's films.
Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited

Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited

Catherine Russell

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema, 2. Galbraith, The Emperor and the Wolf, 220. Ibid., 121. Ibid., 389. Gilles Deleuze, Cinema One: The MovementImage, 188. Galbraith, The Emperor and the Wolf, 354.
Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in ...

Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in ...

Fuminobu Murakami

Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki ...
OLED Displays and Lighting

OLED Displays and Lighting

Mitsuhiro Koden

This book covers both the fundamentals and practical applications of flat and flexible OLEDs. Key features: Covers all of the aspects necessary to the design and manufacturing of OLED displays and lighting.
Official Gazette. English Edition

Official Gazette. English Edition

Japan

... Kiyoshi SHINOZAKI Shigeo SHINOZUKA Yoshimoto SHINPO Matsuo SHINSHI Kiyoshi SHINTANI Kiizuiiosuke SHINTANI Masato SHINTATE Katsuji SHINTOMI Masakiyo SHINYA Hiroichi SHINYA Shijiro SHINYAMA Masao SHIODA Hiroshi ...

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