To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in Japanese Cinema

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Noel Burch \"To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in Japanese Cinema\"
University of California Press | English | August 6, 1979 | ISBN: 0520038770 | 387 pages | PDF | 147,2 MB

Film critic No雔 Burch, whose own title of his study on Japanese cinema, To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in Japanese Cinema, reflects this form/content distance, proposes that class differences were inextricably linked to the development of cinema, a popular mass media. Drawing a parallel between the coming of talkies and the rise of attendance among the bourgeoisie class, Burch delineates a clear line between the interests of the proletariat (of whom silent cinema previously appealed to) and the bourgeoisie (who was interested in cinema as a continuation of theater, a more accepted art form). Arguing that popular theater forms, such as kabuki and bunraku, were well attended by the bourgeois class that came into dominance, he draws a similarity between silent Japanese cinema and these traditions.


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