A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film by Isolde Standish

A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film

Isolde Standish

414 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative medium-paced
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Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denkikan, was open...

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