The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan (2012)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
> Other books on the subject of Japan:
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968 (2024)
An Ethnographic Study
Transcendence and Spirituality in Japanese Cinema (2024)
Framing Sacred Spaces
Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima (2023)
Perspectives on Nuclear Disasters
Japanese High School Films (2023)
Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline
Cinema of Discontent (2023)
Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth
Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire (2023)
Fragmenting History
Making Audiences (2022)
A Social History of Japanese Cinema and Media
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema (2022)
Dir. Joanne Bernardi and Shota T. Ogawa
The Paths of Zatoichi (2021)
The Global Influence of the Blind Swordsman
Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film (2021)
The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades
by Marc Yamada
Re-Viewing the Past (2020)
The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan
Powers of the Real (2019)
Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan
Film's Ghosts (2019)
Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan
Persistently Postwar (2019)
Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
Dir. Blai Guarné, Artur Lozano-Méndez and Dolores P. Martinez
Double Visions, Double Fictions (2018)
The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature
The End of Japanese Cinema (2017)
Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
Paradoxical Japaneseness (2016)
Cultural Representation in 21st Century Japanese Cinema
Japanese Film and the Floating Mind (2016)
Cinematic Contemplations of Being
Women in Japanese Cinema (2016)
Alternative Perspectives
Making Personas (2013)
Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan
Cinema of Actuality (2013)
Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics
Japanese Films (2012)
A Filmography and Commentary, 1921–1989
Japanese Cinema and Otherness (2011)
Nationalism, Multiculturalism and the Problem of Japaneseness
by Mika Ko
The Japanese Filmography (2010)
A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900-1994
Visions of Japanese Modernity (2010)
Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
by Aaron Gerow
The Attractive Empire (2009)
Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan
Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors (2008)
From the Silent Era to the Present Day
The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature (2008)
Polygraphic Desire
Nippon Modern (2008)
Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves (2005)
The Samurai Film Handbook
The Yakuza Movie Book (2003)
A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films
Imperial Screen (2003)
Japanese Film Culture In The Fifteen Years War, 1931-1945
Writing in Light (2001)
The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
Picturing Japaneseness (1996)
Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film
> Other books related to Japan:
Behind the Pink Curtain (2025)
The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
by Jasper Sharp
Subject: Genre > Porn films
The Anime Archives (2025)
A retrospective of anime films and TV shows from indie journal publisher Lost in Cult
Collective
Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation (2025)
The Adaptation of Children's Novels into the World Masterpiece Theater Series
Godzilla (2025)
The First 70 Years: The Official Illustrated History of the Japanese Productions
by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski
Through a Nuclear Lens (2024)
France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Japanese Film Festivals in the Asia-Pacific (2024)
Cultural Diplomacy, Practices and Audiences
Subject: Festivals
The Cinematic Influence (2024)
Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan
The Essential Anime Guide (2023)
50 Iconic Films, Standout Series, and Cult Masterpieces
by Patrick Macias and Samuel Sattin
Japanese Horror Culture (2023)
Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
Dir. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Subashish Bhattacharjee and Ananya Saha
Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze (2023)
Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought
Circulating Fear (2023)
Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media
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
A Foreigner's Cinematic Dream of Japan (2022)
Representational Politics and Shadows of War in the Japanese-German Coproduction New Earth (1937)
by Iris Haukamp
Subject: Countries
Ghost in the Well (2021)
The Hidden History of Horror Films in Japan
Dialectics without Synthesis (2020)
Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame
Subject: Theory
Hayao Miyazaki (2020)
Exploring the Early Work of Japan's Greatest Animator
Subject: Director > Hayao Miyazaki
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: Actress > Shirley Yamaguchi
Japanese and American Horror (2014)
A Comparative Study of Film, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Video Games
Anime Explosion! (2014)
The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation, Revised and Updated Edition
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 and Hong Kong Film Industries (2011)
Understanding the Origins of East Asian Film Networks
by Yau Shuk-ting and Kinnia
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
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