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Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—Japan—History—20th century [Browse]
• Motion pictures—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Motion picture industry—Japan—History—20th century [Browse]
• Motion picture industry—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Motion pictures—Japan—Marketing—History [Browse]
• Motion pictures—United States—Marketing—History [Browse]

Series

• Media, culture, and social change in Asia series [More in this series]
• Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

Summary note

"This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films. It examines how studios and directors worked quickly to capitalize on niche markets or upcoming and current trends, and how as a result this period of history in Japanese cinema was an exceptionally diverse and vibrant film scene. It highlights how, although the V-Cinema industry declined from around 1995, the explosion in quantity and variety of such movies established and cemented many specific genres of Japanese film. Importantly the book argues that film scholars who have long looked down on video as a substandard medium without scholarly interest have been wrong to do so, and that V-Cinema challenges accepted notions of cultural value, providing insight into the formation of cinematic canons and inviting us to rethink what is meant by "Japanese cinema""-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Scholars, canons, and videotape: unboxing Japanese cinema
• Parallel canons: Japanese cinema in the eyes of the world, 1951-2000 through global northern eyes, through East Asian eyes, through Japanese eyes
• Video revolutions: models of video distribution in the U.S.A. and Japan home video distribution: a tale of two systems 'The lowest discursive status': direct-to-video production and distribution in the U.S.A.
• V-cinema: a domestic model in transnational context: 'neither film nor television': gestation and development of V-cinema, internationalization of V-Cinema
• Accidental auteurs: the director in V-cinema J-horror, restraint, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi, the Yakuza film, excess, and Mike Takashi
• Slaughterhouse V.

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ISBN

• 9781032387956
• 1032387955
• 9781032387970 ((paperback))
• 1032387971

LCCN

2022047121

OCLC

1346617331

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