Powers of the Real

Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Lewis offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the “age of the mass society” in Japan.

Puterile realului analizeaza politica culturala a realismului senzorial persuasiv al cinematografiei in Japonia interbelica. Examinand critica culturala, arta, mass-media, literatura si film, Lewis ofera noi perspective asupra istoriei mass-media, a marfurilor intimitatii si emotiei, a realismului filmului si a politicii de gen in „epoca societatii de masa” din Japonia.