Understanding Japan : a cultural history / Mark J. Ravina

Author:: Ravina, Mark, 1961-
Published:: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2015]
Copyright Date:: © 2015
Physical Description:: 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Additional Creators:: Teaching Company

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Series:

Great courses. History, Civilization & culture

Language Note:

Closed-captioned in English.

Contents:

Disc 1. Japan: a globally engaged island nation -- Understanding Japan through ancient myths -- The emergence of the Ritsuryō state -- Aspects of the Japanese language -- Early Japanese Buddhism -- Heian court culture -- Disc 2. The rise of the samurai -- Pure land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism -- Samurai culture in the Ashikaga period -- Japan at home and abroad, 1300-1600 -- Japan's isolation in the Tokugawa period -- Japanese theater: Noh and Kabuki -- Disc 3. The important of Japanese gardens -- The meaning of Bushidō in a time of peace -- Japanese poetry: the road to Haiku -- Hokusai and the art of wood-block prints -- The Meiji restoration -- Three visions of prewar Japan -- Disc 4. War without a master plan: Japan, 1931-1945 -- Japanese family life -- Japanese foodways -- Japan's economic miracle -- Kurosawa and Ozu: two giants of film -- The making of contemporary Japan.

Summary:

Lecturer Mark J. Ravina presents a series of 24 30-minute lectures on the culture of Japan, from prehistoric through contemporary times.

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ISBN:

1629971839
9781629971834

Video File Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital File Characteristics:

video file DVD video region 1

Form of work:

Filmed lectures

Note:

Title and credits from container.
"Smithsonian"--Disc labels.
Accompanying course guidebook includes the professor biography, course scope, lecture guides and bibliographical references.
"Course no. 8332"--Disc labels.

Participant/Performer Note:

Lecturer: Professor Mark J. Ravina, Emory University.

Technical Details:

DVD, NTSC.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the David G. Lashin Memorial Fund; 2016

Endowment Note:

David G. Lashin Memorial Fund

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