A01=Daisuke Miyao
Author_Daisuke Miyao
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transnational orientalism
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- ISBN 9781478008538
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, Daisuke Miyao explores the influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the actualité films made by the Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière films, Miyao contends that more than being documents of everyday life, they provided a medium for experimenting with aesthetic and cinematic styles imported from Japan. Miyao further analyzes the Lumière films produced in Japan as a negotiation between French Orientalism and Japanese aesthetics. The Lumière films, Miyao shows, are best understood within a media ecology of photography, painting, and cinema, all indebted to the compositional principles of Japonisme and the new ideas of kinetic realism it inspired. The Lumière brothers and their cinematographers shared the contemporaneous obsession among Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists about how to instantly and physically capture the movements of living things in the world. Their engagement with Japonisme, he concludes, constituted a rich and productive two-way conversation between East and West.
Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lightingand Japanese Cinema and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, both also published by Duke University Press, and Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover's Introduction to Film Studies.
