Dialectics Without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame (Paperback)

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Realism, Film Theory, Japanese Cinema 
1. Naturalism and the Modernization of Japanese Cinema 
2. The Machine Aesthetic and Proletarian Realism
3. Literary Adaptation and Textual Realism
4. Documentary Film and Epistemological Realism
5. Neglected Traditions of Bergsonism and Phenomenology
Epilogue: Hanada Kiyoteru and Postwar Debates

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index