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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited about Japanese, Cinema, Arguing with the genre: New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Humanities?
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conversations.value: the author offers a refreshing reconsideration of classic works of Japanese Cinema from the 1930s to the 1950s. Arguing for a nuanced application of the concept of "modern classicism" and foregrounding the centrality of melodrama to the study of well-crafted, studio-era films by canonical filmmakers including Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa and Naruse, Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited moves elegantly between insightful reviews of individual films and a critical contextualization of the historical reception of these films in the West. Eminently readable and accessible, the book provides an excellent introduction to the golden era of Japanese cinema.
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conversations.value: What is the first four paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited
  Hayashi, Sharon H. "Traveling Film History: Language and Landscape in the Japanese Cinema, 1931–45." PhD Diss., University of Chicago, 2003.
  Hirano, Kyoko. Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema under the American Occupation, 1945–52. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 1992.
  Kawabata, Yasunari. The Sound of the Mountain. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1970.
  Iijima, Tadashi. "Naruse Mikio to Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki (Naruse Mikio and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs)," Eiga Hyoron (February 1960): 38–9, trans. Kumi Hishikawa.
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conversations.value: What is five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Nolletti, Arthur, Jr., and David Desser, eds. Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
  Nygren, Scott. Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
  Oshima, Nagisa. Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima. Trans. Dawn Lawson. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.
  Prasad, M. Madhava. Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  Prince, Stephen. The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
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conversations.value: Nolletti, Arthur, Jr., and David Desser, eds. Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
  Nygren, Scott. Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
  Oshima, Nagisa. Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima. Trans. Dawn Lawson. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.
  Prasad, M. Madhava. Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  Prince, Stephen. The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa.
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conversations.value: What is the last four paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Wilson, Sandra. "War, Soldier and Nation in 1950s Japan," International Journal of Asian Studies 5, no. 2 (2008): 187–218.
  Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia. "Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong Action Cinemas." In Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema, edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu, 35–48. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
  Yoshida, Kiju. Ozu's Anti-Cinema. Trans. Daisuke Miyao and Kyoko Hirano. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003.
  Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Wilson, Sandra. "War, Soldier and Nation in 1950s Japan," International Journal of Asian Studies 5, no. 2 (2008): 187–218.
  Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia. "Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong Action Cinemas." In Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema, edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu, 35–48. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
  Yoshida, Kiju. Ozu's Anti-Cinema. Trans. Daisuke Miyao and Kyoko Hirano. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003.
  Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema.