"Cazdyn's work is original, unique, and provocative. He asks hard questions, makes surprising connections, and as a result forces us to rethink the relationship of the aesthetic and the social in Japanese modernity."--Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, author of "Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema"

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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I. Relation: Film, Capital, Transformation
II. Historiography: Nation, Narrative, Capital
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III. Adaptation: Origin, Nation, Aesthetic
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IV. Acting: Structure, Agent, Amateur
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V. Pornography: Totality, Reality Culture, Films of History
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VI. Re-reading: Canon, Body, Geopolitics
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Epilogue
Notes
References
Index

Eric Cazdyn is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Film, and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.