Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-343) and index.
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Developing Images, Defining Words -- First, the Story -- The Benshi Intervenes -- A Word about Genre -- Drawing a Map -- Women in the Chain Drama -- 2. Kaeriyama Norimasa and The Glory of Life
A New Voice and a Million Allies for Reform Tanizaki' s Taikatsu Film S cripts -- After Taikatsu -- 5. Journalistic Discourse and Tanizaki's The Present and Future of the Moving Pictures -- Film Journalism and the Pure Film Movement, 1913-1917
Foreign Film in Close-Up: Mori Iwao's A Survey of the Moving Pictures, 1919-1920 Kurihara's Toyo Films and the Founding of Taikatsu -- Challenging Borders -- 4. The Literary Link: Screenwriter Tanizaki Jun'ichiro -- Tanizaki and the Screen
The First Writers Observe to Learn -- Aspects of Pure Film -- Smoke and Mirrors? -- 3. Reformation in Transition: Toyo Films and the Founding of Taikatsu -- Urbanization, Foreign Influence, Political Change
The Gap Widens: Foreign Imports and the Domestic Film Debate The Intellectual Contribution -- The Present and Future of the Moving Pictures -- 6. Mayhem, Mischief, and a Certain Esprit de Corps: Amateur Club -- The Vitality and Vigor of Youth
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Writing in Light : The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement.