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Visual Culture in Japan

Addiss, Stephen. "Woodblock Prints." How to Look at Japanese Art. By Stephen Addiss and Audrey Y. Seo. Danbury: Harry N. Abrams , Incorporated, 1996.
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Bordwell, David. "Mizoguchi and the Evolution of Film Language." Cinema and Language. By Stephen Heath. British Film Institute.
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Bordwell, David. "Materials." Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. British Film Institute, 1988.
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Bordwell, David. "Towards Instrinsic Norms." Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. British Film Institute, 1988.
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Buruma, Ian. "Work as a Form of Beauty." Tokyo : Form and Spirit. By James R. Brandon, Ian Buruma and Rand Castile. Danbury: Harry N. Abrams , Incorporated, 1986.
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Dalby, Lisa. "The Parameters of Play." Tokyo : Form and Spirit. By James R. Brandon, Ian Buruma and Rand Castile. Danbury: Harry N. Abrams , Incorporated, 1986.
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Ghost in the Shell. Dir. Mamoru Oshii. 1995.
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Grigsby, Mary. "Sailormoon: Manga(Comics) and Anime(Cartoon) Superheroine Meets Barbie: Global Entertainment Commodity Comes to the United States." The Journal of Popular Culture 32 (1998): 59-80.
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Hiroshi, Komatsu. "Some Characteristics of Japanese Cinema Before World War I." Reframing Japanese Cinema. Ed. Arthur Nolletti and David Desser. Indiana: Indiana UP, 1992.
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I Was Born, But. . . Dir. Ozu Yasujirô. 1932.

Jenkins, Donald. Introduction. The Floating World Revisited. University of Hawaii P, 1994.
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Kirihara, Don. "Kabuki, Cinema, and Mizoguchi Kenji." Cinema and Language. British Film Institute.
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Kobayashi, Tadashi. "Mitate-e in the Art of Ukiyo-e Artist Suzuki Harunobu." The Floating World Revisited. By Donald Jenkins and Lynn Jacobsen-Katsumoto. University of Hawaii P, 1994.
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Levi, Antonia. "The Birth of the American Otaku." Samurai from Outer Space : Understanding Japanese Animation. Boston: Open Court Company, 1998.
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Miller, Mara. "Art and the Construction of Self and Subject in Japan." Self As Image in Asian Theory and Practice. By Thomas P. Kasulis and Wimal Dissanayake. Ed. Roger T. Ames. New York: State University of New York P, 1998.
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Munroe, Alexandra. "Revolt of the Flesh: Ankoku Butoh and Obsessional Art." Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky. Danbury: Harry N. Abrams , Incorporated, 1994.
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Napier, Susan J. "Vampires, Psychic Girls, Flying Women and Sailor Scouts: Four faces of the young Japanese female in Japanese Popular Culture." The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture : Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures. By Paul Harvey and Susan Napier. Ed. Dolores Martinez. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.
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Prince, Stephen. "Willpower Can Cure All Human Ailments." The Warrior's Camera - The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa. New York: Princeton UP, 1999.
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Quinn, Charles J. "High Metabolism: Manga Circa Shôwa 50." Ranma 1/2. By Rumiko Takahashi and Rumiko Takahashi. North Mankato: Viz Media.
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Richie, Donald. "The Occupied Arts." Confusion Era : Art and Culture in Japan During the Allied Occupation, 1945-1952. Ed. Mark Sandler. New York: University of Washington P, 1997.
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Saiki, Maggie Kinser. "Yokoo Tadanori: Mother Nature’s Son." Graphis 315: 66-68.

Screech, Timon. "The ‘Batavian Temperament’ and its Critics." The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens Within the Heart. Cambridge UP.
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Shively, Donald H. "The Social Environment of Tokugawa Kabuki." Studies in Kabuki : Its Acting, Music, and Historical Context. By James R. Brandon, William P. Malm and Donald H. Shively. St. Paul: East-West Center, 1978.
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Standish, Isolde. "Akira, Postmodernism and Resistance." The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture : Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures. By Paul Harvey and Susan Napier. Ed. Dolores Martinez. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.
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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum. Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi. 1939.

Stray Dog. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. 1949.
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Tsurumi, Shunsuke. " Legends of Common Culture." A Cultural History of Postwar Japan, 1945-1980. New York: Kegan Paul International, Limited, 1994.
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Tsurumi, Shunsuke. "Occupation: the American Way of Life as an Imposed Model." A Cultural History of Postwar Japan, 1945-1980. New York: Kegan Paul International, Limited, 1994.
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Winkel, Margarita. "Souvenir Photography." Souvenirs from Japan. Grand Rapids: Bamboo, 1991.
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Winkel, Margarita. "The Image of Japan in the West." Souvenirs from Japan. Grand Rapids: Bamboo, 1991.
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