Centeno, Marcos (2014) 'Las formas de la otredad. La representación del pueblo ainu en los travelogues de Benjamin Brodsky (1918-1919).' Kokoro, Revista para la difusión de la cultura japonesa (17). pp. 14-22.
Abstract
The origins of cinema coincided with the growing interest in Ainu culture in the West. It is not surprising that the Ainu people appeared in the first images filmed by the cinematograph in Japan. This essay focus the analysis on the Ainu sequences included in Brodsky’s travelogues, tour documentaries: Beautiful Japan (1918) and A Trip through Japan with the YWCA (1919). His Western look projected an image of an «other», different to the Japanese, contrasting with the assimilation period suffered by the Ainu people at that time. It was an exotic construction which showed a primitivism in decline.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Additional Information: | Kokoro Journal Prize for the Dissemination of Japanese Culture 2014 |
| Keywords: | ethnographic documentary, Ainu, Benjamin Brodsky, japaneseness, ethnic minorities |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Centre for Film Studies Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) |
| ISSN: | 21714959 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2015 11:06 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/20595 |
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