Cinema of Actuality analyzes Japanese avant-garde filmmakers' struggle to radicalize cinema in light of the intensifying politics of spectacle and a rapidly changing media environment, one that was increasingly dominated by television.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. Intermedial Experiments and the Rise of the Eizo Discourse  13
2. Cinema, Event, and Artifactuality  53
3. Remediating Journalism: Politics and the Media Event  88
4. Diagramming the Landscape: Power and the Fukeiron Discourse  115
5. Hijacking Television: News and Militant Cinema  149
Conclusion  183
Notes  203
Bibliography  239
Index  255

Yuriko Furuhata is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and the World Cinemas Program at McGill University.