Selling Tea as Japanese History: Culture, Consumption and International Expositions, 1873–1910

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TRANSNATIONAL MARKETING JOURNAL ◽

10.33182/tmj.v4i2.398 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 159-162

Author(s):

Evinc Dogan ◽

Efe Sevin

Keyword(s):

Food Culture ◽

City Image ◽

Culture Consumption ◽

The City

Corvo, Paolo (2015). Food Culture, Consumption and Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN: 9781137398161)Dogan, Evinc (2016). Image of Istanbul: Impact of ECOC 2010 on the City Image, London: Transnational Press London (ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7)

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Tanaka Kinuyo

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409698.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Industrial Development ◽

Japanese Woman ◽

Cultural Construction ◽

Public Image ◽

Special Focus ◽

Japanese History ◽

Female Subjectivity ◽

Japanese Cinema ◽

Close Analysis ◽

History Of

This is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Praised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, Tanaka’s career spanned the industrial development of cinema - from silent to sound, monochrome to colour. Alongside featuring in films by Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse and Kurosawa, Tanaka was also the only Japanese woman filmmaker between 1953 and 1962, and her films tackled distinctly feminine topics such as prostitution and breast cancer. Because her career overlaps with a transformative period in Japan, especially for women, this close analysis of her fascinating life and work offers new perspectives into the Japanese history of women and classical era of national cinema. The first half of the book focuses on Tanaka as actress and analyses the elements and meanings associated with her star image, and her powerful embodiment of diverse, at times contradictory, ideological discourses. The second half is dedicated to Tanaka as director and explores her public image as filmmaker and her depiction of gender and sexuality against the national history in order to reflect on her role and style as author. With a special focus on the melodrama genre and on the sociopolitical and economic contexts of film production, the book offers a revision of theories of stardom, authorship, and women’s cinema. In examining Tanaka’s iconic reification of femininities in relation to politics, national identity, and memory, the chapters shed light on the cultural construction of female subjectivity and sexuality in Japanese popular culture.

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