Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi

Adrian Bingham is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sheffield. He has written widely about the popular press, including Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain (OUP, 2004), Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-78 (OUP, 2009), and, with Professor Martin Conboy, Tabloid Century: The Popular Press in Britain, 1896 to the present (Peter Lang, 2015).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why 1997 and Hana-Bi?; 1: Jidai-geki and Chambara: the Samurai onscreen; 2: Yakuza Cinema; 3: Japanese Horror Cinema; 4: The Changing Japanese Family on Film; 5: Postmodernism and Magic Realism in Contemporary Japanese Cinema; 6: Japanese Documentary Cinema: Reality and its Discontents; 7: Modern Japanese Female Directors; Filmography

This is a lively and informative survey of recent trends in Japanese cinema that will interest a very wide readership of students and curious cinephiles. Bingham is an engaging and reliable critical cartographer whose mapping of the field is accomplished in an illuminating, adventurous and thoughtful fashion.