日本映画における近代性の創出：松竹蒲田映画 『隣の八重ちゃん』（1934）分析

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A dilemma for studies of Japanese cinema is that many scholars, who analyze it from a distance, adopt linear, evolutionary narratives derived from the Enlightenment history or in other words, a colonial model of history with the West as subject and central force of progress. Japanese cinema is seen in these narratives as a belated national cinema following the trajectory of Hollywood in its various stages of development. A reevaluation of historical approaches is necessary to address this imbalance. We must research a greater variety of films, since they can serve as primary historical texts, along with other historical records. My paper will offer an account of the relationship between modern mass culture and nationalism, via an analysis of a Shochiku Kamata-cho (a filmic optique of the 1920’s and 1930’s) film. This study will focus mainly on the director Yasujiro Shimazu, whose oeuvre remains largely unresearched, in spite of the fact that he was one of the founding contributors to the style. The paper will be divided in two sections, which will examine in turn how ideas of modernity and nationalism impacted on Shimazu’s work and the style in general.