DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Understanding Japan : a cultural history / Mark J. Ravina.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2015]

© 2015

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

NTSC

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

Great courses. History, Civilization & culture

Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.

Japan -- Civilization.

Japan -- Social life and customs.

Japan -- History.

Lectures.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Ravina, Mark, 1961- lecturer.

Container of (work): Ravina, Mark, 1961- Understanding Japan: a cultural history, course guidebook.

Teaching Company. production company, publisher.

Container of (expression): Understanding Japan: a cultural history, course guidebook.

Title and credits from container.

"Smithsonian"--Disc labels.

Accompanying course guidebook includes the professor biography, course scope, lecture guides and bibliographical references.

Title on guidebook: "Understanding Japan: a cultural history, course guidebook" by "Professor Mark J. Ravina, Empry University".

"Course no. 8332"--Disc labels.

Lecturer: Professor Mark J. Ravina, Emory University.

DVD, NTSC.

Closed-captioned in English.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

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