{"product_id":"a-page-of-madness-aaron-gerow-9781929280513","title":"A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan Volume 64","description":"Kinugasa Teinosuke's 1926 film \u003ci\u003eA Page of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eKurutta ichipeiji\u003c\/i\u003e) is celebrated as one of the masterpieces of silent cinema. It was an independently produced, experimental, avant-garde work from Japan whose brilliant use of cinematic technique was equal to if not superior to that of contemporary European cinema. Those studying Japan, focusing on the central involvement of such writers as Yokomitsu Riichi and the Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari, have seen it as a pillar of the close relationship in the Taisho era between film and artistic modernism, as well as a marker of the uniqueness of prewar Japanese film culture. But is this film really what it seems to be? Aaron Gerow brings meticulous research to the film's production, distribution, exhibition, and reception and closely analyzes the film's shooting script and shooting notes, which were recently made available. He draws a new picture of this complex work, revealing a film divided between experiment and convention, modernism and melodrama, the image and the word, cinema and literature, conflicts that play out in the story and structure of the film and its context. \u003ci\u003eA Page of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e, a film fundamentally about differing perceptions and conflicting worlds, was received at the time in different versions and with varying interpretations, and ironically, the film that exists today is not in fact the one originally released. Including a detailed analysis of the film and translations of contemporary reviews and shooting notes for scenes missing from the current print, Gerow's book offers provocative insight into the fascinating film \u003ci\u003eA Page of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e was--and still is--and into the struggles over this work that tried to articulate the place of cinema in Japanese society and modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aaron Gerow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1929280513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781929280513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e U of M Center for Japanese Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Aaron Gerow","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48066055340287,"sku":"9781929280513","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_86df1e8e-0d4e-4bfe-931e-8082c22187af.jpg?v=1768677859","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-page-of-madness-aaron-gerow-9781929280513","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}