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Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the interpretation of these films: propaganda and allegory. Produced in response to the hearings held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) that resulted in the Hollywood blacklist, these films' ideological message and rhetorical effectiveness was often muddled by the inherent difficulties in dramatizing villains defined by their thoughts and belief systems rather than their actions. Whereas anti-Communist propaganda films offered explicit political exhortation, allegory was the preferred vehicle for veiled or hidden political comment in many police procedurals, historical films, Westerns, and science fiction films. Jeff Smith examines the way that particular heuristics, such as the mental availability of exemplars and the effects of framing, have encouraged critics to match filmic elements to contemporaneous historical events, persons, and policies. In charting the development of these particular readings, Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist features case studies of many canonical Cold War titles, including The Red Menace, On the Waterfront, The Robe, High Noon, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Film --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Motion pictures --- Cold War in motion pictures. --- Communism and motion pictures --- Blacklisting of entertainers --- Political aspects --- History --- Entertainers --- Communism and moving-pictures --- Motion pictures and communism --- Blacklisting --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century american history. --- allegory. --- american entertainment culture. --- american films. --- anti communist propaganda. --- cold war. --- communism. --- critical lens. --- entertainment blacklist. --- film and television. --- film criticism. --- film history. --- historical films. --- hollywood blacklist. --- hollywood. --- house committee on un american activities. --- huac. --- literary allegory. --- movie studies. --- police procedures. --- political. --- politics. --- postwar period. --- propaganda films. --- propaganda. --- science fiction films. --- villains. --- westerns. --- United States of America
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The aim of this Special Issue lies in expanding contemporary discussions on Japanese Cinema and its transnational aspects by applying new critical methodologies and stances and in revealing the contradictions inherent in the way the old paradigm of ‘National Cinema’ has traditionally been articulated. In order to do so, this publication highlights the limitations of assessing Japanese film as a cinematic phenomenon confined to its national borders. Throughout this issue, the concept of transnationality is not confined to a single definition and is instead used as an analytical framework which allow authors to surpass narrow perspectives that neglect the complex nature of Japanese film in terms of its esthetics, narratives, and theoretical approaches as well as production, consumption, and distribution systems. This volume casts light on the extraordinary international flows of images, stories, iconographies, and theories between Japan and other countries, and assesses the dialectic relationship between two apparently contradictory aspects: external influences and Japanese uniqueness, revealing how ‘uniquely Japanese’ films may ironically contain foreign codes of representation. Thus, the articles presented here bring a more comprehensive understanding of how global cultural flows have shaped local creativity. Some authors adopt additional transnational perspectives, through which they analyse how Japan is represented as ‘other’ from outside and how the rest of the world is represented by Japan, or propose a renewal of film theories on Japanese cinema that have traditionally been dominated by Western writings. Overall, manuscripts included in this publication help the reader to understand different ways in which Japan expands beyond Japanese Cinema and Japanese Cinema expands beyond Japan.
The arts --- Films, cinema --- Shakespeare --- Kurosawa --- Macbeth --- films --- translation --- transcultural --- Noh --- tragedy --- fate --- guilt --- contemporary Japanese cinema --- cultural blending --- intertextuality --- mise en abyme --- Nobuhiro Suwa --- transculturality --- (trans)national cinema --- national cinema --- transnational Japanese film --- taiyōzoku --- mukokuseki --- ‘kimono effect’ --- youth icons --- postwar film festivals --- cartoon movie --- Japan and Spain --- transnational imagery --- film studies --- ideological analysis --- ideology --- Japanese cinema --- nation --- New Left --- New Wave --- Nuberu Bagu --- Yoshida Kiju --- Naomi Kawase --- cinema of place --- women directors --- art cinema --- international film festivals --- female authorship --- auteur --- metamorphosis --- animation --- Franz Kafka --- cinematic picture --- film aesthetics --- theory of beauty --- ikebana --- kire --- geidō --- film philosophy --- Japanese aesthetics --- transcultural thinking --- Ri Koran --- Li Xianglan --- Yamaguchi Yoshiko --- transnationality --- Japanese Empire --- propaganda films --- n/a --- taiyōzoku --- 'kimono effect' --- geidō
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The aim of this Special Issue lies in expanding contemporary discussions on Japanese Cinema and its transnational aspects by applying new critical methodologies and stances and in revealing the contradictions inherent in the way the old paradigm of ‘National Cinema’ has traditionally been articulated. In order to do so, this publication highlights the limitations of assessing Japanese film as a cinematic phenomenon confined to its national borders. Throughout this issue, the concept of transnationality is not confined to a single definition and is instead used as an analytical framework which allow authors to surpass narrow perspectives that neglect the complex nature of Japanese film in terms of its esthetics, narratives, and theoretical approaches as well as production, consumption, and distribution systems. This volume casts light on the extraordinary international flows of images, stories, iconographies, and theories between Japan and other countries, and assesses the dialectic relationship between two apparently contradictory aspects: external influences and Japanese uniqueness, revealing how ‘uniquely Japanese’ films may ironically contain foreign codes of representation. Thus, the articles presented here bring a more comprehensive understanding of how global cultural flows have shaped local creativity. Some authors adopt additional transnational perspectives, through which they analyse how Japan is represented as ‘other’ from outside and how the rest of the world is represented by Japan, or propose a renewal of film theories on Japanese cinema that have traditionally been dominated by Western writings. Overall, manuscripts included in this publication help the reader to understand different ways in which Japan expands beyond Japanese Cinema and Japanese Cinema expands beyond Japan.
The arts --- Films, cinema --- Shakespeare --- Kurosawa --- Macbeth --- films --- translation --- transcultural --- Noh --- tragedy --- fate --- guilt --- contemporary Japanese cinema --- cultural blending --- intertextuality --- mise en abyme --- Nobuhiro Suwa --- transculturality --- (trans)national cinema --- national cinema --- transnational Japanese film --- taiyōzoku --- mukokuseki --- ‘kimono effect’ --- youth icons --- postwar film festivals --- cartoon movie --- Japan and Spain --- transnational imagery --- film studies --- ideological analysis --- ideology --- Japanese cinema --- nation --- New Left --- New Wave --- Nuberu Bagu --- Yoshida Kiju --- Naomi Kawase --- cinema of place --- women directors --- art cinema --- international film festivals --- female authorship --- auteur --- metamorphosis --- animation --- Franz Kafka --- cinematic picture --- film aesthetics --- theory of beauty --- ikebana --- kire --- geidō --- film philosophy --- Japanese aesthetics --- transcultural thinking --- Ri Koran --- Li Xianglan --- Yamaguchi Yoshiko --- transnationality --- Japanese Empire --- propaganda films --- n/a --- taiyōzoku --- 'kimono effect' --- geidō
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The aim of this Special Issue lies in expanding contemporary discussions on Japanese Cinema and its transnational aspects by applying new critical methodologies and stances and in revealing the contradictions inherent in the way the old paradigm of ‘National Cinema’ has traditionally been articulated. In order to do so, this publication highlights the limitations of assessing Japanese film as a cinematic phenomenon confined to its national borders. Throughout this issue, the concept of transnationality is not confined to a single definition and is instead used as an analytical framework which allow authors to surpass narrow perspectives that neglect the complex nature of Japanese film in terms of its esthetics, narratives, and theoretical approaches as well as production, consumption, and distribution systems. This volume casts light on the extraordinary international flows of images, stories, iconographies, and theories between Japan and other countries, and assesses the dialectic relationship between two apparently contradictory aspects: external influences and Japanese uniqueness, revealing how ‘uniquely Japanese’ films may ironically contain foreign codes of representation. Thus, the articles presented here bring a more comprehensive understanding of how global cultural flows have shaped local creativity. Some authors adopt additional transnational perspectives, through which they analyse how Japan is represented as ‘other’ from outside and how the rest of the world is represented by Japan, or propose a renewal of film theories on Japanese cinema that have traditionally been dominated by Western writings. Overall, manuscripts included in this publication help the reader to understand different ways in which Japan expands beyond Japanese Cinema and Japanese Cinema expands beyond Japan.
Shakespeare --- Kurosawa --- Macbeth --- films --- translation --- transcultural --- Noh --- tragedy --- fate --- guilt --- contemporary Japanese cinema --- cultural blending --- intertextuality --- mise en abyme --- Nobuhiro Suwa --- transculturality --- (trans)national cinema --- national cinema --- transnational Japanese film --- taiyōzoku --- mukokuseki --- ‘kimono effect’ --- youth icons --- postwar film festivals --- cartoon movie --- Japan and Spain --- transnational imagery --- film studies --- ideological analysis --- ideology --- Japanese cinema --- nation --- New Left --- New Wave --- Nuberu Bagu --- Yoshida Kiju --- Naomi Kawase --- cinema of place --- women directors --- art cinema --- international film festivals --- female authorship --- auteur --- metamorphosis --- animation --- Franz Kafka --- cinematic picture --- film aesthetics --- theory of beauty --- ikebana --- kire --- geidō --- film philosophy --- Japanese aesthetics --- transcultural thinking --- Ri Koran --- Li Xianglan --- Yamaguchi Yoshiko --- transnationality --- Japanese Empire --- propaganda films --- n/a --- taiyōzoku --- 'kimono effect' --- geidō
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