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Film and Fashion in Japan, 1923-39: Consuming the 'West'

by Lois Barnett
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781474497701
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: USD 130.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 658 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Textile & Costume

The book examines the interaction between the audience member and Japan's film and fashion industries between 1923 and 1939, focusing on Western-inspired fashion objects (as opposed to indigenous Japanese items, such as the kimono). This interdisciplinary book examines the semiotics of dress onscreen within Japan's transcultural media climate, consulting not only film- or fashion-related theoretical bases but also historical and gender-based approaches. The work consults surviving films, print media and advertising materials, allowing insights into lost films and the period's commercial context.

The book discusses the role of fashion consumption in defining emergent modern identities and their relationships with new spaces, questioning their arising in Japan and worldwide. Key areas include the expressive Modern Girl image (the Japanese equivalent of the Hollywood flapper); the relationship between the body and sportswear and hybridised dress styles (which combined Japanese and Western-influenced aesthetics); and menswear in the early work of director Ozu Yasujirō.

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