{"id":5972,"date":"2002-01-01T14:58:23","date_gmt":"2002-01-01T18:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:38:21","slug":"the-flash-of-capital-film-and-geopolitics-in-japan-by-eric-cazdyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-flash-of-capital-film-and-geopolitics-in-japan-by-eric-cazdyn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan by Eric Cazdyn [in Push &gt; for NAATA]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Flash-of-Capital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32474\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Flash-of-Capital.jpg\" alt=\"Flash of Capital\" width=\"822\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Flash-of-Capital.jpg 822w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Flash-of-Capital-548x800.jpg 548w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2002\/01\/Flash-of-Capital-800x1168.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/a>The most difficult of the titles, although its premise is interesting \u2013 that the history of Japanese film is inextricably linked to the history of Japanese capitalism, both of which are approximately a hundred years old. Filled with endless lit\/film crit mumbo jumbo \u2013 the true litmus test: try reading a passage to an unsuspecting audience and see what kind of reaction you get \u2013 Cazdyn nevertheless explores some thought-provoking points, such as the use of a Western vocabulary and Western theory on the Japanese and Japanese films, and in an epilogue that could have been a full chapter, the exploration of the unjustly limited role of women in Japanese films, onscreen and behind the cameras.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/naata-push-2002-2003-diasporic-proliferation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Diasporic Proliferation or: We&#8217;re Here, There and Everywhere &#8230; and Growing,&#8221; <em>Push &gt;<\/em>, NAATA: National Asian American Telecommunications Center (now the Center for Asian American Media), 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5973\" title=\"Flash of Capital\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/flash-of-capital.jpg\" alt=\"Flash of Capital\" width=\"125\" height=\"206\" \/>The most difficult of the titles, although its premise is interesting \u2013 that the history of Japanese film is inextricably linked to the history of Japanese capitalism, both of which are approximately a hundred years old. Filled with endless lit\/film crit mumbo jumbo \u2013 the true litmus test: try reading a passage to an unsuspecting audience and see what kind of reaction you get \u2013 Cazdyn nevertheless explores some thought-provoking points, such as the use of a Western vocabulary and Western theory on the Japanese and Japanese films, and in an epilogue that could have been a full chapter, the exploration of the unjustly limited role of women in Japanese films, onscreen and behind the cameras.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/naata-push-2002-2003-diasporic-proliferation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Diasporic Proliferation or: We&#8217;re Here, There and Everywhere &#8230; and Growing,&#8221; <em>Push &gt;<\/em>, NAATA: National Asian American Telecommunications Center (now the Center for Asian American Media), 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,76,20,6535],"tags":[6608,4825,59,4848,1054,4849,24,4826],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-japanese","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-center-for-asian-american-media","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-eric-cazdyn","tag-film-studies","tag-flash-of-capital","tag-historical","tag-naata"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan by Eric Cazdyn [in Push &gt; for NAATA] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-flash-of-capital-film-and-geopolitics-in-japan-by-eric-cazdyn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan by Eric Cazdyn [in Push &gt; for NAATA] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The most difficult of the titles, although its premise is interesting \u2013 that the history of Japanese film is inextricably linked to the history of Japanese capitalism, both of which are approximately a hundred years old. 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