Contribution to Book
The Word Before the Image: Criticism, the Screenplay, and the Regulation of Meaning in Prewar Japanese Film Culture
Word and Image in Japanese Cinema
(2000)
Abstract
Considers how Japanese filmmakers and critics during the silent era tried to contain the problem of the image—and its potential proliferation of meaning—by tying it to the word.
Keywords
- Japanese cinema,
- screenwriting,
- literature
Disciplines
Publication Date
2000
Editor
Carole Cavanaugh and Dennis Washburn
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Citation Information
Aaron Gerow. "The Word Before the Image: Criticism, the Screenplay, and the Regulation of Meaning in Prewar Japanese Film Culture" CambridgeWord and Image in Japanese Cinema (2000) p. 3 - 35 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/aarongerow/2/