Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History

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Summary: Pretty good book
Review: I've read this for a class i took on film, it's pretty detailed and well written. I'd recommend this for a person who's interested in japanese film.

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Summary: Good Resource
Review: This book is one of the few resources available to western readers on pre-war and WW II era Japanese films, Japans greatest era of cinema according to Noel Burch (author; To the Distant Observer). Unfortunately the text is also clotted with a particularly repugnant variety of paternalistic American leftism.