The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (Expanded Edition)

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063

the

grove press,

new york

panese

inc.

seFilm:

art and Indus Joseph

1.

anderson

and donald riehie with a foreword by

akira knrraawa

COPYRIGHT IN JAPAN 1959 BY CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY

FIRST EVERGREEN EDITION 1960

DISTRIBUTED IN CANADA BY

MCCLELLAND 25

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\4ANiHTAfTURKn IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

dedicated to that

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table of contents Foreword BY AKIRA KUROSAWA

13

Authors' Foreword

15

part one: background 1

SLOW FADE-IN

1896-1917

21

^

ESTABLISHING SHOT

1917-1923

35

1923-1927

41

AND PROPERTY

1927-1931

63

5 THE

TALKIES, EXTERIOR

1931-1939

72

O THE

TALKIES, INTERIOR

1931-1939 (cont.)

90

3 WIPE

4 COSTUME

7

SHOOTING SCRIPT

1939-1945

126

B

BACKGROUND PROJECTION

1939-1945 (cont.)

148

1945-1949

159

1949-1954

181

O NEW 1O

SEQUENCE

ADAPTATION AND ATMOSPHERE

contents

LONG-SHOT

1954-1959 (cont.)

259

part two: foreground

13 CONTENT

315

14 TECHNIQUE

332

15

DIRECTORS

346

16

ACTORS

392

17

THEATERS AND AUDIENCES

Chart

1.

Directors as Pupils and Teachers

430

Chart

2.

Development of Major Companies

434

Index

431

list

2.

Gion Geisha, 1898 Maple Viewing, 1898

3.

Katusha, 1914

4. 5.

The Living Corpse, 1917 The Loyal Forty-seve?i Roiiin,

6.

Island

7.

Amateur Club, 1920

8.

The

1.

9.

10.

Women,

105

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.

107

Winter Camellia, 1921 Mountains Grow Dark, 1921

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