What Is Japanese Cinema?: A History

Columbia University Press

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E-ISBN 978-0-231-54948-6

Originally published in the Japanese as Nihon eigashi 110 nen (Tokyo: Shueisha, 2014).

English translation rights arranged with Yomota Inuhiko through the Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Yomota, Inuhiko, 1953– author. | Kaffen, Philip, translator.

Title: What is Japanese cinema?: a history / Yomota Inuhiko; translated by Philip Kaffen.

Other titles: Nihon eigashi 100-nen. English

Description: New York: Columbia University Press, [2019] | “Originally published in the Japanese as Nihon eigashi 110 nen (Tokyo: Shueisha, 2014).” | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018054005| ISBN 9780231191623 (cloth: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231191630 (paperback: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231549486 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Motion pictures—Japan—History.

Classification: LCC PN1993.5.J3 N542513 2019 | DDC 791.430952—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018054005

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