Beschreibung:
Cinema of Actuality analyzes Japanese avant-garde filmmakers' struggle to radicalize cinema in light of the intensifying politics of spectacle and a rapidly changing media environment, one that was increasingly dominated by television.
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Intermedial Experiments and the Rise of the Eizo Discourse 13 2. Cinema, Event, and Artifactuality 53 3. Remediating Journalism: Politics and the Media Event 88 4. Diagramming the Landscape: Power and the Fukeiron Discourse 115 5. Hijacking Television: News and Militant Cinema 149 Conclusion 183 Notes 203 Bibliography 239 Index 255