Colonial Policies in Japanese Non-Sound Cinema: Narrators and National Spirit
Abstract
The use of cinema as a means of ideological propaganda and a tool for cultural expansion and export in Japan began after its victory in the war against Tsarist Russia between 1904 and 1905. A conflict that marked not only a turning point in the country's expansionist policies, but also the development of internal film infrastructures that favoured and encouraged the war spirit in Japanese society, as well as external ones in order to strengthen imperialist expansion and colonial propaganda in the occupied territories. One of the most interesting case studies is the development of the Japanese film industry in Taiwan by the silent film narrator Takamatsu Toyojirô, a trade unionist agitator in Tokyo who put himself at the service of the expansionist government in order to propagate national ideology.
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