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Images of Americans in Postwar Japanese Cinema
- Source: Asian Cinema, Volume 10, Issue 2, Mar 1999, p. 1 - 17
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- 01 Mar 1999
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Abstract
Americans have been recorded in fascinating and oftentimes puzzling detail in the Japanese cinema of the past five decades. Various directors' portrayals of Westerners have partaken of a certain amount of creative confusion and experiment. The films they figure in run the gamut from simplistic to insightful, from insecure and muddled to confidently ambivalent.
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