Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the Tragic Hero by Isolde Standish

Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the Tragic Hero

Isolde Standish

242 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction mysterious reflective medium-paced

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This study argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres, such as the war-retro and yakuza films are based. Two central questions in relation to these post-war Japanese fi...

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