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• Encyclopedias (5) • Dictionaries (6) • Essays (2) • Studies (44) • Stories (1) • Didactic (1)
• Encyclopedias (2) • Dictionaries (3) • Essays (0) • Studies (13) • Stories (1) • Didactic (1)
• Encyclopedias (5 books)(2 books)
Gun and Sword (2013)
An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980
by Chris D.
Publisher: Poison Fang Books
The Japanese Filmography (2010)
A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900-1994
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film (2004)
by Jasper Sharp and Tom Mes
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Dictionaries (6 books)(3 books)
Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies (2009)
by Abé Markus Nornes and Aaron Gerow
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors (2008)
From the Silent Era to the Present Day
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Essays (2 books)(0 book)
Japanese Film and the Floating Mind (2016)
Cinematic Contemplations of Being
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Studies (44 books)(13 books)
Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima (2023)
Perspectives on Nuclear Disasters
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Cinema of Discontent (2023)
Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Japanese Visual Media (2023)
Politicizing the Screen
by Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher: Routledge
Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire (2023)
Fragmenting History
Publisher: Routledge
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968 (2022)
An Ethnographic Study
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Making Audiences (2022)
A Social History of Japanese Cinema and Media
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema (2022)
Dir. Joanne Bernardi and Shota T. Ogawa
Publisher: Routledge
Japanese High School Films (2021)
Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film (2021)
The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades
by Marc Yamada
Publisher: Routledge
Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film (2019)
Publisher: Peter Lang
Powers of the Real (2019)
Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Persistently Postwar (2019)
Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
Dir. Blai Guarné, Artur Lozano-Méndez and Dolores P. Martinez
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Double Visions, Double Fictions (2018)
The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
The End of Japanese Cinema (2017)
Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
Publisher: Duke University Press
The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema (2015)
Critical Essays
Dir. Matthew Edwards
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi (2015)
by Adam Bingham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cinema of Actuality (2013)
Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics
Publisher: Duke University Press
Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age (2012)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Film and Political Culture in Postwar Japan (2012)
Publisher: Peter Lang
Visions of Japanese Modernity (2010)
Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
by Aaron Gerow
Publisher: University of California Press
The Attractive Empire (2009)
Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Time Frames (2007)
Japanese Cinema And the Unfolding of History
by Scott Nygren
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imperial Screen (2003)
Japanese Film Culture In The Fifteen Years War, 1931-1945
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
The Flash of Capital (2002)
Film and Geopolitics in Japan
by Eric Cazdyn
Publisher: Duke University Press
Writing in Light (2001)
The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Picturing Japaneseness (1996)
Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Reframing Japanese Cinema (1992)
Authorship, Genre, History
Dir. Arthur Nolletti and David Desser
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Eros Plus Massacre (1988)
An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema
by David Desser
Publisher: Indiana University Press
The Japanese Film (1983)
Art and Industry - Expanded Edition
by Joseph L. Anderson and Donald Richie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Stories (1 book)(1 book)
The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan (2012)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Didactic (1 book)(1 book)
> Other books related to Japan:
Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation (2025)
The Adaptation of Children's Novels into the World Masterpiece Theater Series
Through a Nuclear Lens (2024)
France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima
The Cinematic Influence (2024)
Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan
Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze (2023)
Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought
Cultural Guide to Anime and Manga (2023)
by Pamela Gossin and Marc Hairston
Involuntary Consent (2023)
The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry
Subject: Genre > Porn films
Kurosawa, Shakespeare and Others (2023)
Art and the Human Experience
by Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède
Subject: Director > Akira Kurosawa
The Japan/America Film Wars (2023)
World War II Propaganda and its Cultural Contexts
Dir. Abe Mark Nornes and Fukushima Yukio
The Russian Kurosawa (2023)
Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently
Subject: Director > Akira Kurosawa
Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-conformist (2023)
The Films of Suzuki Seijun
Subject: Director > Suzuki Seijun
Ishiro Honda (2023)
A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa
by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski
Subject: Director > Ishirô Honda
The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide (2022)
The Essential Guide to Japanese Animated Cinema
by Jake Cunningham and Michael Leader
Transpacific Convergences (2022)
Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
by Denise Khor
Subject: Countries > United States
Kong, Godzilla and the Living Earth (2022)
Gaian Environmentalism in Daikaiju Cinema
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
Dialectics without Synthesis (2020)
Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame
Subject: Theory
The Japanese Adult Video Industry (2019)
by Heung-Wah Wong and Hoi-Yan Yau
Subject: Genre > Porn films
Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits (2019)
The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura
Dir. Lindsay Coleman and David Desser
Subject: Director > Shôhei Imamura
Rashomon Effects (2018)
Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies
Dir. Blair Davis, Robert Anderson and Jan Walls
Tanaka Kinuyo (2018)
Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity
Dir. Irene González-López and Michael Smith
Subject: Director > Kinuyo Tanaka
Japan's Green Monsters (2018)
Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema
by Sean Rhoads and Brooke McCorkle
Everyday Scenes from a Parallel World (2018)
Background illustrations and scenes from Anime and Manga works
Collective
Giant Creatures in Our World (2017)
Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture
Dir. Camille D.G. Mustachio and Jason Barr
Apocalypse Then (2017)
American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951–1967
by Mike Bogue
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro (2017)
Histories of the Everyday
by Woojeong Joo
Subject: Director > Yasujirô Ozu
Godzilla FAQ (2017)
All That's Left to Know about the King of the Monsters
Screening Enlightenment (2017)
Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Subject: Countries > United States
Fragrant Orchid (2016)
The Story of My Early Life
by Yoshiko Yamaguchi and Sakuya Fujiwara
Subject: Actor > Shirley Yamaguchi
Japanese and American Horror (2014)
A Comparative Study of Film, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Video Games
Coproducing Asia (2014)
Locating Japanese-Chinese Regional Film and Media
Rising Sun, Divided Land (2013)
Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers
The Aesthetics of Shadow (2013)
Lighting and Japanese Cinema
Drawing on Tradition (2012)
Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan
Japanese Counterculture (2011)
The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji
Subject: Director > Terayama Shuji
The Art of Studio Gainax (2008)
Experimentation, Style and Innovation at the Leading Edge of Anime
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams (2007)
Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
Dir. Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. and Takayuki Tatsumi
Anime Intersections (2007)
Tradition and Innovation in Theme and Technique
Forest of Pressure (2007)
Ogawa Shinsuke And Postwar Japanese Documentary
Subject: Director > Ogawa Shinsuke
Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films (2007)
A Critical Analysis and Filmography of 103 Features Released in the United States, 1950–1992
Cinematic Landscapes (2000)
Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan
Dir. Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser
> See books in French on subject Japon
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