Attractive Empire: Transnational film culture in imperial Japan

Imperial Japanese film culture

This book examines the collective significance and cumulative impact of imperial Japanese film culture, a complex network of interrelated media which included magazines, journals, advertising, songs, posters, and films. The author argues that this film culture is also a way to examine how the empire portrayed itself as an appealing alternative to Western colonialism.

Michael Baskett

University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu)

2008