TY - BOOK AU - Standish,Isolde TI - A new history of Japanese cinema: a century of narrative film SN - 9780826417909 (pbk.) : U1 - 791.4'3'0952 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York, London PB - Continuum KW - Motion pictures KW - Japan KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-395), filmography (p. 365-386) and index; Specialized N2 - Drawing on much Japanese film scholarship that is relatively unknown outside of Japan, this book offers a fresh look at the development of the highly influential Japanese film industry, covering the work of many lesser known but important directors as well those with established worldwide reputations. The main topics are cinema as it relates to: modernity, nationalism and empire, state, humanism, transgressions, genres and gender ER -