"The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira Kurosawa to neglected popular genres such as the film musical and encompassing topics such as ecology, spectatorship, home-movies, colonial history and relations with Hollywood and Europe, The Japanese Cinema Book presents a set of new, and often surprising, perspectives on Japanese film. With its plural range of interdisciplinary perspectives based on the expertise of established and emerging scholars and critics, The Japanese Cinema Book provides a groundbreaking picture of the different ways in which Japanese cinema may be understood as a local, regional, national, transnational and global phenomenon. The book's innovative structure combines general surveys of a particular historical topic or critical approach with various micro-level case studies. It argues there is no single fixed Japanese cinema, but instead a fluid and varied field of Japanese filmmaking cultures that continue to exist in a dynamic relationship with other cinemas, media and regions."--Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Japanese Cinema and Its Multiple Perspectives / Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips
• Aaron Gerow
• Alex Jacoby
• Hideaki Fujiki
• Naoki Yamamoto
• Kosuke Kinoshita
• Hikari Hori
• Hiroyuki Kitaura
• Manabu Ueda
• Rachael Hutchinson
• Johan Nordstr??m
• Ran Ma
• Yuka Kanno
• Julian Ross Part 1: Theories and Approaches: Early Cinema : Difference, Definition and Japanese Film Studies / Authorship : Author, Sakka, Auteur / Spectatorship : The Spectator as Subject and Agent / Film Criticism : Soviet Montage Theory and Japanese Film Criticism / Narrative : Multi-viewpoint Narrative: From Rashomon (1950) to Confessions (2010) / Gender and Sexuality : Feminist Film Scholarships: Dialogue and Diversification / Part 2: Institutions and Industry: The Studio System : The Japanese Studio System Revisited / Exhibition : Screening Spaces: A History of Japanese Film Exhibition / Censorship : Censorship as Education: Film Violence and Ideology / Technology : Sound and Intermediality in 1930s Japanese Cinema / Film Festivals : Engasai Inside Out: Japanese Cinema and Film Festival Programming / Stardom : Queer Resonance: The Stardom of Miwa Akihiro / Experimental Cinema : Forms, Spaces and Networks: A History of Japanese Experimental Film /

• The Yakuza Film : The Yakuza Film: A Genre 'Endorsed by the People' / Jennifer Coates
• Ayumi Hata
• Rachel DiNitto
• Sharon Hayashi
• Woojeong Joo
• Alastair Phillips
• Ni Yan
• Yuka Tsuchiya
• Masato Dogase
• Mika Ko Documentary : 'Filling Our Empty Hands': Ogawa Productions and the Politics of Subjectivity / Part 5: Time and Spaces of Representation: Ecology : Toxic Interdependencies: 3/11 Cinema / Rural Landscape : The Cinematic Countryside in Japanese Wartime Filmmaking / The Home : Separations and Connections: The Cinematic Homes of the Showa 30s / The City : Tokyo 1958 / Part 6: Social Contexts: Empire : Cinematic Dualities: Shanghai Filmmaking in the Era of the Japanese Occupation / The Occupation : Pedagogies of Modernity: CIE and USIS Films about the United Nations / Social Protest : Japanese Student Movement Cinema: A Dialogic Approach / Minority Cultures : Whose Song Is It? Korean and Women's Voice in Oshima Nagisa's Sing a Song of Sex (1967) /

• Transmedial Relations : Manga at the Movies: Adaptation and Intertextuality / Rayna Denison
• Oliver Dew
• Daisuke Miyao
• Chika Kinoshita
• Fumiaki Itakura
• Yuna Tasaka
• Philip Kaffen
• Michael E. Crandol
• Thomas Lamarre
• Ryoko Misono
• Michael Raine The Archive : Screening Locality: Japanese Home Movies and the Politics of Place / Part 3: Film Style: Cinematography : The Trans-pacific Work of Japanese Cinematographers / Acting : Spectral Bodies: Matsui Sumako and Tanaka Kinuyo in The Love of Sumako the Actress (1947) / Set Design : Colour and Excess in Undercurrent (1956) / Music : When the Music Exits the Screen: Sound and Image in Japanese Sword Fight Films / Part 4: Genre: Period Drama : The Duplicitous Topos of Jidaigeki / The Horror Film : The Ghosts of Kaiki Eiga / Anime : Compositing and Switching: An Intermedial History of Japanese Anime / Melodrama : Melodrama, Modernity and Displacement: That Night's Wife (1930) / The Musical : Heibon and the Popular Song Film /

• Globalisation : Japanese Cultural Globalisation at the Margins / Cobus van Staden
• Stephanie DeBoer
• Hiroshi Kitamura
• Andrew Dorman
• Yoshiharu Tezuka
• Ryan Cook Part 7: Flows and Interactions: Japanese Cinema and its Post-Colonial Histories : Technologies of Co-production: Japan in Asia and the Cold War Production of Regional Place / Japanese Cinema and Hollywood : Frontiers of Nostalgia: The Japanese Western in the Postwar Era / Japanese Cinema and its Peripheries : Japan and Okinawa and the Politics of Exchange / Japanese Cinema and Europe : A Constellation of Gazes: Europe and the Japanese Film Industry / Transnational Remakes and Adaptations : Casablanca Karaoke: The Program Picture as Marginal Art in 1960s Japan /