The Creation and Construction of Asian Cinema Redux.

MOTION picture industry; MOTION pictures; HISTORY of the motion picture industry; TRANSNATIONAL films; FILM festivals; FILM criticism; MOTION pictures -- History -- 1941-1950

This article looks back to the first book imagining an 'Asian cinema,' which was published in Japan on the eve of Pearl Harbor. It then works through a history of the conception of Asian cinema, discovering fundamental continuities between national and transnational cinema studies and calling for a regionalization of film history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]