Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
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Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement

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While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan's cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan's "pure film movement" of the 1910s is widely held to mark the birth of film theory as we know it and is a touchstone for historians of early cinema. Yet this work has been difficult to access because so few prints hav...more
Paperback, 354 pages
Published March 18th 2001 by Wayne State University Press (first published March 2001)
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