{"product_id":"japanese-film-and-the-challenge-tom-mes-9781032387956","title":"Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films. It examines how studios and directors worked quickly to capitalize on niche markets or upcoming and current trends, and how as a result this period of history in Japanese cinema was an exceptionally diverse and vibrant film scene. It highlights how, although the V-Cinema industry declined from around 1995, the explosion in quantity and variety of such movies established and cemented many specific genres of Japanese film. Importantly the book argues that film scholars who have long looked down on video as a substandard medium without scholarly interest have been wrong to do so, and that V-Cinema challenges accepted notions of cultural value, providing insight into the formation of cinematic canons and inviting us to rethink what is meant by \"Japanese cinema\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Mes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032387955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032387956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Tom Mes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46721393852671,"sku":"9781032387956","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6740665c-c950-466f-a2f4-e162c687a6d9.jpg?v=1742752738","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/japanese-film-and-the-challenge-tom-mes-9781032387956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}