Cinema of Actuality Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics

"Cinema of Actuality is a tour de force, a potentially field-changing intervention in Japanese film studies, TV and media theory, and the study of postwar world film culture. Yuriko Furuhata shows that during the 1960s and 1970s, major political events and their portrayal in the media formed the basis for an entire Japanese cinema. At the same time, she poses vital questions about media theory and representation more broadly. This is a singularly important work." - Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video "This is a really exciting book. At last there's a book that reads the Japanese cinema of the 1950s to 1970s - Oshima, Matsumoto, Wakamatsu, Adachi - in a cross-media context and with a rigorous historical and theoretical eye. Elegantly and precisely argued, this is a book that is both exemplary and surprising. From manga to militant cinema, from landscape theory to Pink Film, Yuriko Furuhata gives readers the discursive and political history that allows a new understanding of the Japanese film and media of this era." - Miryam Sas, author of Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return