Russian Literature in Japanese Film: Cross-cultural Adaptations in the Silent Era

Since the beginning of the film industry in Japan, many short films and movies based on Western literary works were made, especially during the 1910s and 1920s. Several of those films were based on fashionable Russian literary works that had been staged in Shingeki (new drama) theaters. This study...

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Main Author: Alex Pinar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 2023-09-01
Series:Nuevas Poligrafías, Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada
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Online Access:http://revistas.filos.unam.mx/index.php/nuevaspoligrafias/article/view/1893