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New York: Continuum, 2006. 8vo size trade paperback with black and white photo illustrated cover; 414 pages From back: "Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denikikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within 13 years 300 cinemas had sprung up throughout the country... (The author) focuses on the historical development of Japanese film, illustrated by a series of typical Japanese film posters. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation." Edgewear, creases to bottom and bottom and top corners of front cover, soil on bottom and light soil to outside pages. We note pencilled underlining on at least 29 pages and pencilled marginalia on at least three pages and four creased page corners. Quotes… Read More

Continuum, 2006-05-08. paperback. Used: Good.

New York, Continuum, 2005.. 8vo. 414pp, Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations;a near fine copy. . First edition.

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London & New York,, 2005. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Rear flyleaf has a small tear at the top, else clean and bright. Near fine in lightly marked, very good+ dust jacket.. 8vo. pp 414. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's orange cloth with black lettering at spine. Illustrated with colour plates.ISBN: 0826417094

Continuum, New York & London 2005. 23.5 x 15.5cms, 414pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are; towards a politics of cinema; cinema, modernity & the Shochiko Tokyo Studios; cinema, nationalism & empire; cinema & the state; cinema & humanism; cinema & transgression; gnres & gender.

United Kingdom: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2005. Hardback in good plus condition with fine dust jacket. Book has a little highlighting and underlining in front portion, otherwise book would be fine condition.. Hardcover. Good/Fine.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film.

Continuum, 30/06/2005 00:00:01. hardcover. Good. 3.0477 in x 22.8426 in x 15.9878 in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover.

Paperback / softback. New. Presents the history of Japanese cinema which has had an international influence. Drawing upon Japanese film scholarship that has never been published outside Japan, this book provides a chronological survey of a range of films and sheds light on films and directors that are not so famous on the international stage, as well as on those who are.

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Continuum, 2006-05-08. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2006. Paperback. New. new title edition. 414 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.

Hardback. New. Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denkikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within thirteen years three hundred cinemas had sprung up throughout the country.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.