Yamamoto, Naoki

Dialectics Without Synthesis

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ISBN 13:: 9780520351806
author:: Yamamoto, Naoki
format:: Paperback
publisher:: University of California Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2020
Pages:: 248
Dimensions:: 229mm / 152mm
Genre:: History Textbook
Condition:: New
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Dialectics without Synthesis: A New Approach to Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame Naoki Yamamoto explores Japan's significant but previously overlooked contribution to global film theory during the early twentieth century. By examining various Japanese theorists from different fields, including film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Yamamoto offers a fresh perspective on cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of modernity. This study challenges long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and the West and non-West through a radical reconfiguration of knowledge production and consumption. By doing so, it provides a new framework for understanding Japan's role in shaping global film theory. Through its radical reconfiguration, Dialectics without Synthesis sheds new light on the complex relationships between film, culture, and modernity, offering valuable insights into the development of Japanese film theory and its significance in a global context.

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