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Reading a Japanese Film : Cinema in Context /
Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessary tools to construct a deeper understanding of some of the most critically acclaimed and thoroughly entertaining films ever made. In her introduction,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2005]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Synergy of Theme, Style, and Dialogue: Kenji Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion (1936)
- 3. A Meiji Novel for the Screen: Shirö Toyoda's The Mistress (1954)
- 4. Period Film Par Excellence: Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy (1954-1956)
- 5. Simple Means for Complex Ends: Yasujirö Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959)
- 6. Eros, Politics, and Folk Religion: Kaneto Shindö's Onibaba (1963
- 7. The Age-Old Paradox of Innocence and Experience: Köhei Oguri's Muddy River (1981
- 8. Satire on the Family and Education in Postwar Japan: Yoshimitsu Morita's The Family Game (1983)
- 9. Defeat Revisited: Masahiro Shinoda's MacArthur's Children (1984)
- 10. Satire on Contemporary Japan: Jüzö Itami's A Taxing Woman (1987)
- 11. Animation Seminal and Influential: Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
- 12. Cultural Responses to Simplicity: Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo (1993)
- 13. The Danger and Allure of Phantom Light: Hirokazu Koreeda's Maboroshi (1995)
- 14. Stressed-Out Nineties Youth in Laid-Back Sixties Dress: Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return (1995)
- 15. Bittersweet Childhood: Yöichi Higashi's Village of Dreams (1996)
- 16. A Woman Director's Approach to the Country Family: Naomi Kawase's Suzaku (1997)
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author