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<P>I am trying to put together a course on movies in Denmark. My target group consists mostly of second year college students at my university's faculty of law, and the course will run in a general category of "Human and culture" (ningen to bunka). I have no formal training in film studies, and I do not expect my students to have too much pre-knowledge on the subject. Still, I hope to make them think about how cinema may, cautiously, be taken as a cultural product of a given country. I also want them to understand how technical and external (non-)cinematique conditions can influence the result we are looking at. I am therefore looking for visual materials that might illustrate these points, preferably in the Japanese setting to make it easier for the students to identify with what they are told. I have been searching in library catalogues and amazon, but so far only come up with a
documentary on cinematography, which I hope will be useful. But, are there any available documentary/ TV program that deal with what I , for lack of finer words, would lable "an introduction to the history of cinema (in Japan)", if possible not in more than two-four hours? Something that deals with the movie industry, the introduction of new techniques, trends in cinema, laws, etc? I have come across a title "Yoshida Kijuu ga kataru Ozu Yasujirou no eiga sekai" which seems relevant (and available) but is it recommendable?</P>
<P>Any advice on specific materials or where to search will be much appreciated.</P>
<P>Cordially,</P>
<P>Christian M. Hermansen, Ph.D. </P>
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