Miyao, Daisuke

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What is the aesthetics of shadow? -- Lighting and capitalist-industrial modernity : Shochiku and Hollywood -- Flashes of the sword and the star : Shochiku and Jidaigeki -- Street films : Shochiku and Germany -- The aesthetics of shadow : Shochiku, Toho, and Japan -- The cinemato…

What is the aesthetics of shadow? -- Lighting and capitalist-industrial modernity : Shochiku and Hollywood -- Flashes of the sword and the star : Shochiku and Jidaigeki -- Street films : Shochiku and Germany -- The aesthetics of shadow : Shochiku, Toho, and Japan -- The cinemato…

In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes ho…