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Dear members,

You might be interested to know that Bloomsbury Digital Resources are currently featuring content about Cinema in Japan on Screen Studies: https://www.screenstudies.com/featured-content

In Daisuke Miyao's overview article about Japanese Cinema before World War II, she traces the development of cinema in Japan in the early 20th century, highlighting how Japanese film-making grew out of kabuki theatre traditions. You can read about it here: https://www.screenstudies.com/article?docid=b-9781350996328&tocid=b-9781350996328-007

The 1930s, 1940s and 1950s saw the flourishing of talents of the great directors Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse and Akira Kurosawa. Catherine Russell considers the industrial, cultural and aesthetic features of classical Japanese cinema, its relationship to Hollywood and to Japanese national identity in Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited here: https://www.screenstudies.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781628928594&tocid=b-9781628928594-chapter1

Robert N. Watson’s study of Throne of Blood (BFI Classics series), Kurosawa’s epic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth considers how the film highlights “analogies between British and Japanese medieval history, and between Shakespeare as an epitome of high western civilisation and Noh drama as an epitome of high Japanese civilisation.” Read it here: https://www.screenstudies.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781838713591&pdfid=9781838713591.0005.pdf&tocid=b-9781838713591-0000089

The late 1990s onwards has seen a resurgence of a lively national cinema which includes the popularity of genres such as the yakuza (gangster) film, horror, and anime. Darrell William Davis provides an overview of the Japanese cinematic landscape here: https://www.screenstudies.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781501351082&tocid=b-9781501351082-chapter15

Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell’s BFI Film Classic: Akira considers this 1998 post-apocalyptic cyberpunk feature here: https://www.screenstudies.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781838713638&pdfid=9781838713638.0004.pdf&tocid=b-9781838713638-0000094 
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