Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study
Combining film studies and ethnographic research methods within a memory studies framework, Coates examines the impact of cinema cultures on the everyday lives of viewers.
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan draws from four years of interviews, participant observation, questionnaire surveys, and written communications with over 100 study participants in the Kansai region of Western Japan. This is an in-depth study of memories of cinema-going among the generations who regularly attended film theatres between 1945-1968, the peak period of production and cinema attendance in Japan.
Through investigating the role of film viewership, broadly conceived, in the formation of a postwar sense of self, the reader will benefit from rare access to the voices of grass-roots viewers, who often tell a different version of cinema history and its effects than that available in extant scholarship.

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Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study
Combining film studies and ethnographic research methods within a memory studies framework, Coates examines the impact of cinema cultures on the everyday lives of viewers.
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan draws from four years of interviews, participant observation, questionnaire surveys, and written communications with over 100 study participants in the Kansai region of Western Japan. This is an in-depth study of memories of cinema-going among the generations who regularly attended film theatres between 1945-1968, the peak period of production and cinema attendance in Japan.
Through investigating the role of film viewership, broadly conceived, in the formation of a postwar sense of self, the reader will benefit from rare access to the voices of grass-roots viewers, who often tell a different version of cinema history and its effects than that available in extant scholarship.

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Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study

Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study

by Jennifer Coates
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study

Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study

by Jennifer Coates

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Combining film studies and ethnographic research methods within a memory studies framework, Coates examines the impact of cinema cultures on the everyday lives of viewers.
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan draws from four years of interviews, participant observation, questionnaire surveys, and written communications with over 100 study participants in the Kansai region of Western Japan. This is an in-depth study of memories of cinema-going among the generations who regularly attended film theatres between 1945-1968, the peak period of production and cinema attendance in Japan.
Through investigating the role of film viewership, broadly conceived, in the formation of a postwar sense of self, the reader will benefit from rare access to the voices of grass-roots viewers, who often tell a different version of cinema history and its effects than that available in extant scholarship.


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ISBN-13: 9781399501040
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 08/31/2024
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dr Jennifer Coates is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964 (2016) and co-editor of Politicizing the Screen: Japanese Visual Media (2021) and Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (2019).

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsNote on the Romanization of Japanese WordsAcknowledgements

Introduction: Feelings Without Words

1. What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Cinema?

2. The Cinema as a Place to Be

3. Times Past and Passing Time at the Cinema

4. Stars, Occupiers, Parents, and Role Models: Cinema as a Way of Being (Japanese)

5. Gender Trouble at the Cinema

6. Organized Audiences and Committed Fans: Cinema, Viewership, Activism

7. Crafting the Self Through Cinema Culture

Conclusion: Giving an Account of Oneself through Talking About Cinema

Bibliography

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