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Las grietas de la imagen. Una mirada a la trastienda de los primeros documentales etnográfico sobre el pueblo ainu (1897-1936)
2014
This work is a historical study of the representation of the Ainu people through ethnographic documentaries made in Japan before the Pacific War. The corpus has been divided into three sections: first, the Ainu in the first Lumière actualités filmed in Japan. Second, in the actualités of Pathé productions and the reference to the lost documentary of Torii Ryozo. Third,in the travelogues, made in Japan by Frederick Starr and Benjamin Brodsky in the 1910s. \ud When comparing the film analysis to the social reality of the Ainu, in section four, it becomes clear how documentaries tried to project a deceiving ethnicity belonging to a time prior to the moment they were filmed. Thus, filmmakers ai…
The Fight for the Self-Representation. Ainu Imaginary, Ethnicity and Assimilation
2017
Film representation of the Ainu people is as long as cinema but it has not remained stable over time. From the origins of cinema, Ainu people were an object of interest for Japanese and foreign explorers who portrayed them as an “other” savage and isolated from the modern world. The notion of “otherness” was slightly modified during wartime, as the Ainu were represented as other Japanese subjects within the “imperial family” and at the end of the fifties, during which entertainment cinema presented the Ainu according to the western Hollywood code on the one hand; and Mikio Naruse proposed a new portrayal Ainu focusing on the Ainu as a long discriminated social collective rather than as an e…