Yoshiharu Tezuka is an associate professor of media and cultural studies at Komazawa University in Japan.
Yoshiharu Tezuka's Japanese Cinema Goes Global traces the history of Japanese cinema in the world and vice versa, looking particularly at international coproduction's and collaborations since the end of World War II. He brings a unique background as a filmmaker, scholar, and Japanese professional trained abroad. The book combines industrial history, surveys of scholarship on Japanese film history, theoretical interventions, and extensive personal interviews with key figures involved in the films he discusses. The result is a rich tapestry of information about and insight into the ways in which Japanese cinema went from a national industry to a global one after 1945. Through the prism of Japanese cinema, Tezuka opens up a broader understanding of the political, economic, social, and cultural dynamic at work in Japan during this time; its relations with the US, European film cultures, and eventually its changing relations during the postwar decades to the Asian film industries. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California
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