Dialectics without Synthesis
Author | : Naoki Yamamoto |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520351790 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520351797 |
Rating | : 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dialectics without Synthesis written by Naoki Yamamoto and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan’s active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption.