ISBN-10: 0415328470
ISBN-13: 9780415328470
A set of 26 articles on key motion pictures of jap cinema, from the silent period to the current day. the entire significant administrators of jap cinema should be coated, from Ozu and Kurosawa to modern administrators like Kitano and Itami. motion pictures mentioned contain classics like "Seven Samurai" and "In the area of the Senses" in addition to cult favorites comparable to "Godzilla" and more moderen successes corresponding to "Hana-Bi", "Tampopo" and "Spirited Away". every one bankruptcy will talk about a movie in terms of specific aesthetic, inductrial or severe concerns and should finish with a advisor to extra interpreting and a whole filmography for the appropriate director. the quantity will function a complete advent to jap cinema heritage and eastern tradition and society by way of the editors. the entire movies tested are all to be had on DVD and video.
This publication follows a similar layout as our winning supplementary French movie: Texts and Contexts, which we released in a moment variation in 1999.
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Online. ) (2004) The Cinema of Japan and Korea, London: Wallflower Press. Burch, Noël (1979) To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema, London: Scolar Press. Cazdyn, Eric (2002) The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan, Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press. Cohen, Robert (1981) ‘Toward a Theory of Japanese Narrative’, Quarterly Review of Film Studies, 6 (2): 181–200. Desser, David (1988) Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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In other words, I Was Born, But . , despite its many humorous episodes, is marked by a sense of controlled despair about the price of social change. In constructing such a close analogy between the worlds of the children and the adults it may also be seen to be positing an argument about the future direction of Japan’s modernity. 27 ¯ ’ S I WA S B O R N , B U T . . YA S U J I R O To examine these issues in further detail, we should first look at the film in terms of its iconography and particular representation of class and space.
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