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Dialectics Without Synthesis - by Naoki Yamamoto (Hardcover)

Dialectics Without Synthesis - by  Naoki Yamamoto (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Dialectics without Synthesis</i> explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>"Dialectics without Synthesis</i> is a genealogical tour de force. Naoki Yamamoto's focus on the two-fold, elliptical nature of cinematic realism allows him to address, in meticulous detail, the multifarious theoretical disputes waged across five decades of Japanese cinema, while tracing the contours of a singular mode of theorization. The result is a comprehensive survey of 'classical' Japanese film theory with a deftly conceptualized argument for its importance today. This is the book on Japanese film theory we students and teachers of global film theory have been waiting for."--Thomas Lamarre, author of <i>The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media</i> <p/> "Yamamoto has powerfully detonated the field of film theory by expanding it to include a surprising and potent Japanese discourse. Under his scrutiny, the terms <i>realism, film, </i>and even <i>theory</i> become duplicitous and nonconforming. Yet even if our dream of universal synthesis is shattered, he has given us a precious opportunity for a revision and reboot of the discipline."--Francesco Casetti, Yale University <p/> "Yamamoto's book is exemplary in its examination of the dynamics behind global and local forces shaping knowledge production. <i>Dialectics without Synthesis</i> will surely be essential reading in any course seeking to give a global account of the development of film theoretical discourses."--Masha Salazkina, author of <i>In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico.</i> <p/> "The questions 'What is Japanese film theory?' and the variation 'Is there such a thing as Japanese film theory?' have been raised by many Japanese film critics and intellectuals. This long-awaited and groundbreaking book demonstrates how theory can be built, reconstituted, and at times, dismantled retrospectively and retroactively through a contemporary author's act of theorizing and historicizing a network of critical discourses."--Victor Fan, King's College London<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Naoki Yamamoto</b> is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.</p>

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