Directory of World Cinema: Japan

Directory of World Cinema: JapanDirectory of World Cinema: Japan provides an insight into Japanese cinema through reviews of significant titles and case studies of directors, alongside explorations of the cultural and industrial origins of key genres. The book contains reviews, essays, research resources and full colour film stills highlighting significant films and players.

Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s notion of a 'second poetic geography'

<p><b>Published seven years after her debut collection <i>A Dome of Many-Coloured Glasses</i>

This book investigates the ways in which architectural researchers

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Through the lens of Mumbai’s manifold cinematic representations

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but particularly in Europe and America since 2001

researchers from twelve countries reveal that it is all too frequently a freedom that is taken for granted

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Other features include a transcript of an interview with Dan Formosa

adds something important to the urban experience that is a conscious and deliberate act on the part of its practitioners

As a site of study