{"title":"From Chaplin to Stalin: Proletarian Cinema and Socio-Cultural Change in Japan, 1920-1930","authors":"Andrea Bourgogne","doi":"10.1080/14780038.2022.2139692","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article looks at the Proletarian Film Movement of Japan (Prokino) in the interwar period, exploring the shift away from Chaplinism, a current aimed at social critique, to working-class focused political aesthetics. It examines the journey of Prokino in relationship to Eurasianism, in which Japan sought to turn to Asia and the Soviet Union rather than the West. Such a study complicates previous approaches to the history of interwar Japan, and shows how social and cultural history are deeply entangled.","PeriodicalId":45240,"journal":{"name":"Cultural & Social History","volume":"20 1","pages":"225 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultural & Social History","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2139692","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article looks at the Proletarian Film Movement of Japan (Prokino) in the interwar period, exploring the shift away from Chaplinism, a current aimed at social critique, to working-class focused political aesthetics. It examines the journey of Prokino in relationship to Eurasianism, in which Japan sought to turn to Asia and the Soviet Union rather than the West. Such a study complicates previous approaches to the history of interwar Japan, and shows how social and cultural history are deeply entangled.
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