A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan Volume 64

by Aaron Gerow and Aaron Andrew Gerow

Book Overview

Kinugasa Teinosuke's 1926 film A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji) 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929280521
• ISBN13: 9781929280520
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.