Conference, Daisuke Miyao, « Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema », mardi 18 mai, 18h

In this conference, Daisuke Miyao discusses his new book, Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (Duke University Press, 2020), in which he explores the influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the actualité films made by the Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière films, which he viewed at Institut Lumière, Miyao argues that those films provided a medium for experimenting with aesthetic and cinematic styles imported from Japan.

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