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Reference Literature to Japanese Silent Cinema

  • Hiroshi Komatsu: "The Fundamental Change. Japanese Cinema Before and After the Earthquake of 1923." In: Griffithiana No.38/39 (1990), pp.186-196
  • Junko Ogihara: "The Exhibition of Films for Japanese Americans in Los Angeles during the Silent Film Era." In: Film History 4:2 (1990), pp.81-87
  • Joseph L.Anderson: "Spoken Silents in the Japanese Cinema; or, Talking to Pictures: Essaying the Ktsuben, Contextualizing the Texts." In: A.Nolletti / D.Desser (Eds.): Reframing Japanese Cinema, Bloomington 1992, pp.259-311
  • Hiroshi Komatsu / Frances Loden: "Meister des stummen Bildes: Die Position des Benshi im japanischen Kino." In: KINtop Nr.5 (1996), pp.99-114
  • Mariann Lewinsky: Eine verrückte Seite. Stummfilm und filmische Avantgarde in Japan. Zürich 1997
  • Joanne Bernardi: Writing in Light. The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement. Detroit 2001
  • Jeffrey A.Dym: Benshi. Japanese Silent Film Narrators, and Their Forgotten Narrative Art of Setsumei: A History of Japanese Silent Film Narration. New York: Edwin Mellen, 2003
  • Camera Obscura No.60 (2005): New Women of the Silent Screen: China, Japan, Hollywood
  • Hiroshi Komatsu: "The Foundation of Modernism: Japanese Cinema in the Year 1927." In: Film History 17:2-3 (2005)
  • Hideaki Fujiki: "Benshi as Stars: The Irony of the Popularity and Respectability of Voice Performers in Japanese Cinema." In: Cinema Journal 45:2 (2006), pp.68-84
see also:

OV: Silent Cinema

Japan

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