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Danish film director Lars von Trier is known for controversial work, both on-screen and off. His difficult subject matters, public statements and claims about his mistreatment of actors often overshadow his main stylistic trait and contribution to cinema. Throughout von Trier’s …

This dissertation explores the ways in which the emergence of portable small-gauge film technologies and the subsequent spread of amateur film culture challenged the practices and meaning of cinema in interwar and wartime Japan. It argues that amateur cinema served as a place wh…