Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity

Praised As Amongst The Greatest Actors In The History Of Japanese Cinema, Tanaka Kinuyo'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. Her Career Overlapped With A Transformative Period In Japanese History, And This Close Analysis Of Her Fascinating Life And Work Offers New Perspectives, Subjectivities And Modes Of Analysis For The Classical Era Of Japanese Cinema. 1. Dancer, Doctor, Maiden, Mother: Tanaka Kinuyo's Early Star Image / Lauri Kitsnik -- 2. Meetings And Partings: How Tanaka's Films End / Alexander Jacoby -- 3. Tanaka And Mizoguchi: Politics And Rebellion In The Early Post-war Era / Michael Smith -- 4. The First Female Gaze At Post-war Japanese Women: Tanaka Kinuyo, Film Director / Ashida Mayu -- 5. Kinuyo And Sumie: When Women Write And Direct / Ayako Saito -- 6. Female Authorship, Subjectivity And Colonial Memory In Tanaka Kinuyo's The Wandering Princess (1960) / Alejandra Armendariz-hernandez -- 7. Panpan Girls, Lesbians And Post-war Women's Communities: Girls Of Dark (1961) As Women's Cinema / Yuka Kanno. Edited By Irene González-lópez And Michael Smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.