question about films set in film studios
mjraine at uchicago.edu
mjraine at uchicago.edu
Sat Nov 15 01:27:22 EST 2008
This is a kind of follow-up to my previous comment about
reflexivity and intertextuality in prewar Japanese films. It
seems to me that quite a few prewar films from around the
world are set in film studios, for reasons of glamour and
romance but also a kind of fascination with / expose of the
apparatus itself. But I can't think of any prewar Japanese
films with a studio setting, and only one or two (like
Naruse's Street Without End) that even mention actresses.
There are quite a few in the postwar and the earliest I can
think of is the Korean-Japanese Hanto no haru but that was
made during the war. Can anyone think of any examples of
prewar Japanese films with scenes shot in a film studio?
Michael
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