The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan

Michael Raine is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Western University, Canada. He has written widely on Japanese cinema, with an emphasis on the transition to sound, wartime image culture, and the ＂cinema of high economic growth＂ around 1960. He has published most recently on the Japanese musical, Imamura Sh?hei’s The Insect Woman, and wartime cinema in Occupied Shanghai. Johan Nordström completed a Ph.D. at Waseda University, and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo. He is completing a book on Tokyo based early sound film studio P.C.L./Toho. His essays on film culture in Japan appear in Film Criticism, the BFI’s The Japanese Cinema Book and Blackwell’s A Companion to Japanese Cinema (forthcoming).