EALC 24905 /34905 - Agitation and Propaganda:Film Policy and Film Style in Wartime Japan

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University of Chicago

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Knowledge of Japanese not required. This class traces the deployment of cinema as both national culture and "optical weapon" during a time of total war. We study the Film Law of 1939 and the "national policy films" a nd "peop le's films" that attempted to raise the aesthetic and technical level of cinema in Japan in order to compete with the memory of Hollywood films both at "home" and in the Asian countries occupied by Japan. The class includes films made under Japanese sponsorship in the colonies of Taiwan and Korea as well as in the puppet state of Manchuria and the occupied territory of Shanghai. We also study local sources of wartime Japanese cinema-the prewar leftist film movement, the documentary film movement, the narrative avant-garde-in the context of the broader image culture of wartime Japan. Japanese and other Asian sources discussed in a separat e section. M. Raine

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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