TY - BOOK ID - 7093935 TI - Contemporary Japanese film. PY - 1999 SN - 0834804158 9780834804159 PB - New York Weatherhill DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - J6839 KW - J6800.90 KW - Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- cinema KW - Japan: Performing and media arts -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - Directors, Motion picture KW - Film directors KW - Film producers KW - Filmmakers KW - Motion picture directors KW - Moviemakers KW - Moving-picture producers and directors KW - Producers, Motion picture KW - History and criticism KW - Persons KW - Motion pictures - Japan - Reviews KW - Motion picture producers and directors - Japan - Interviews KW - Motion picture producers and directors - Japan - Biography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7093935 AB - This comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profiles of leading directors and producers. Interpretive essays provide an overview of some of the key issues and themes of the decade, and provide background and context for the treatment of individual films and artists.In Mark Schilling's view, Japanese film is presently in a period of creative ferment, with a lively independent sector challenging the conventions of the industry mainstream. Younger filmmakers are rejecting the stale formulas that have long characterized major studio releases, reaching out to new influences from other media-television, comics, music videos, and even computer games-and from both the West and other Asian cultures. In the process they are creating fresh and exciting films that range from the meditative to the manic, offering hope that Japanese film will not only survive but thrive as it enters the new millennium. ER -