20th century film criticism
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avant garde art
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cinematic realism
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documentary film
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film
film criticism
film theory
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japanese cinema
japanese film
japanese film theory
japanese movies
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marxism
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realism and modernism
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- ISBN 9780520351806
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2020
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan’s active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption.
Naoki Yamamoto is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
