Cinema Year Book of Japan 1936-37 Analysis. Familiarize yourself with the publication, Cinema Year Book of Japan 1936-37, keeping in mind the “PAPER” acronym in “How to Read a Primary Source.”
Cinema Year Book of Japan 1936-37 Analysis
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This is a task in three parts:
1.Familiarize yourself with the publication, Cinema Year Book of Japan 1936-37, keeping in mind the “PAPER” acronym in “How to Read a Primary Source.” You do not need to read everything, but be sure to go through the entire publication; there are interesting statistics, advertisements, and other things towards the back of the book.
2. Choose four or five things (any combination of essays, reviews, statistics, photograph galleries, incedental information, advertisements, etc.) that seem interesting to you for what they say about how the authors of the book perceive Japanese cinema: its place amongst global filmmaking, its modernity (or lack thereof), also, its particular characteristics, its struggles, etc.
3. Based on these four or five things, write an essay that addresses such questions as who the book appears to be aimed at (who is its target audience?) and also how you know that, what kind of information it’s presenting to that audience and why, and what generalizations or conclusions you can make about the state of Japanese cinema in relation to global filmmaking practices based on the evidence (your four or five things) the book provides.
The cinema of Japan has a history that spans more than 100 years.
Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world. It is of 2010, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produce. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Further, films have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived.
Tokyo Story (1953) ranked number three in Sight & Sound’s list of the 100 greatest films of all time. Tokyo Story also topped the 2012 Sight & Sound directors’ poll of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, dethroning Citizen Kane, while Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) was voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC’s 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries. Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film four times, more than any other Asian country.
Japan’s Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and also Kadokawa, which are the members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ).
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