Mr. Smith goes to Tokyo :the Japanese cinema under the American occupation, 1945-1952

• 作者: Hirano, Kyōko.
• 出版: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institute 1992.
• 稽核項: xvii, 365 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
• 叢書名: Smithsonian studies in the history of film and television
• 標題: Motion pictures , Motion pictures Japan -- History -- 20th century. , Motion pictures Censorship -- Japan. , Censorship , Motion picture industry , Motion picture industry Japan -- History -- 20th century. , History
• ISBN: 1560984023 , 9781560984023
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• 附註: 102年國科會補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫主題:藝術學:華語電影研究. Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-341) and indexes.
• 摘要: "In Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo, Kyoko Hirano examines American censorship of Japanese cinema during the occupation of 1945-1952, exposing how the occupation government effectively used the Japanese film industry to serve its own ends: to inculcate "democratic" principles, to guard against a return to militarism, and, ultimately, to create a trustworthy ally in the Pacific." "The first history of Japanese cinema under the American occupation, Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo makes extensive use of declassified occupation-government documents from Washington and Tokyo, censored screenplays, several hundred films, and interviews with Japanese directors, producers, and writers. Through an analysis of such classics as Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), long considered a standard in the "democratization film" genre, Hirano reveals that American authorities approved of films that featured baseball, American-style comedy, gunfights, kissing scenes, and Japanese men and women resisting fascism. She addresses prohibited topics - ritual suicide, gambling, depictions of Mt. Fuji, and, above all, criticism of the United States - in discussions of such censored films as The Japanese Tragedy (1946) and Desertion at Dawn (1950)." "Hirano traces the history of occupation censorship from its beginnings, when the United States became the almost sole Allied occupying force under General Douglas MacArthur (who wished to make Japan the "Switzerland of Asia"), to its conclusion, with the signing of a bilateral defense treaty. The author distinguishes between an early, more liberal period of occupation, in which many of Japan's own repressive restrictions on political expression were lifted, and a longer regressive period, in which growing antilabor policies of the Cold War era sparked labor unrest in the Japanese film industry."
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• 系統號: 005255695
• 資料類型: 圖書
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