What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu’s sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota conside...(展开全部)

作者 四方田犬彦 (1953- ) ，电影研究者、杂文与随笔作者、诗人。东京大学宗教学专业毕业，后于东大研究生院专攻比较文学。曾任明治学院大学教授，长期讲授电影学课程。目前潜心从事研究与写作。曾任哥伦比亚大学、特拉维夫大学、博洛尼亚大学客座教授、客座研究员。研究与批评涉猎领 域广泛，对文学、电影、漫画、戏剧、美食等文化现象长期关注，笔耕不辍。获伊藤整文学奖、桑原武夫学艺奖、艺术选奖（文部科学大臣奖）等多个奖项。著作140余部，已出版中文译著有：《日本电影100年》（三联书店，2006）、《创新激情：一九八〇年以后的日本电影》（中国电影出版社，2006）、《论可爱》（山东人民出版社，2011）、《日本电影与战后神话》（南京大学出版社，2011）等。 译者 王众一 (1963- )，吉林大学研究生院外语系毕业，获硕士学位。现任日文月刊《人民中国》总编辑。...(展开全部)

What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin'sfamous question, exploringhis'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time Establishes cinema’s distinction from the current enthusiasm over audio-visual entertainment, without relegating cinema to a single, olde...(展开全部)

安德烈·巴赞，法国《电影手册》创办人之一，著名电影批评家、理论家，提倡现实主义美学，提出了长镜头理论，阐述了新现实主义导演的重要价值，以及蒙太奇与景深镜头在电影语言中的重要性和辩证关系。因为对电影事业的重大贡献，自上世纪40年代至今，巴赞在西方电影备受推崇，被誉为“法国影迷的精神之父”“新浪潮电影之父”“电影的亚里士多德”，主要著作有《电影是什么？》《查理·卓别林》《残酷电影》《让·雷诺阿》。

Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential Cahiers du Cinema, which under his leader...(展开全部)

Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential Cahiers du Cinema, which under his leader...(展开全部)

Traditional Japanese architecture--whether Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines, residences, castles, or teahouses--has become increasingly familiar around the world. Through the media of motion pictures, art books, T.V. documentaries and dramas such as Shogun, as well as through personal experience, more and more people have gained an acquaintance and appreciation of the archite...(展开全部)

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira K...(展开全部)

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira K...(展开全部)

At the heart of this astonishing novel is a true story of courage and endurance in the face of one of the most brutal civil wars the world has ever known. Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safet...(展开全部)