Review
"One is filled with admiration for the author’s breadth of perspective, the objectivity of his approach, the vast reaches of material he covers and the care with which he analyzes each film and document."— Iwamoto Kenji, professor of film, Waseda University, Tosho Shimbun
"In bringing the English-language reader through the duration of wartime cinema under Imperial Japan up to the tensions that characterized film under the American occupation, The Imperial Screen is an essential complement to the scholarship by Dower, Hirano, and Buruma on war, culture, and memory."—Joanne Bernardi, associate professor of Japanese and film, University of Rochester
"Who could have predicted that the most detailed and precise analysis of our country’s wartime propaganda would come from an American scholar born and educated in the postwar era?"—Kawamoto Saburo, film historian, Mainichi newspaper
“High’s masterwork . . . contribute[s] . . . impressively . . . to historical understanding of [Japan] and to the history of proganda in general.”--Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
“The Japanese-language edition of High’s book was first published in 1995. . . . [T]he book [has] become established as a major landmark in the historiography of that phase of Japan’s national past.”--Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
From the Back Cover
"Who could have predicted that the most detailed and precise analysis of our country's wartime propaganda would come from an American scholar born and educated in the postwar era?"-Kawamoto Saburo, film historian, Mainichi newspaper "One is filled with admiration for the author's breadth of perspective, the objectivity of his approach, the vast reaches of material he covers and the care with which he analyzes each film and document."-Iwamoto Kenji, professor of film, Waseda University, Tosho Shimbun
"In bringing the English-language reader through the duration of wartime cinema under Imperial Japan up to the tensions that characterized film under the American occupation, The Imperial Screen is an essential complement to the scholarship by Dower, Hirano, and Buruma on war, culture, and memory."-Joanne Bernardi, associate professor of Japanese and film, University of Rochester
About the Author
Peter B. High is professor of film and language at Nagoya University in Japan.
