Eros Plus Massacre
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Author | : David Desser |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1988-05-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780253204691 |
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The decade of the 1960s encompassed a "New Wave" of films whose makers were rebels, challenging cinematic traditions and the culture at large. The films of the New Wave in Japan have, until now, been largely overlooked. Eros plus Massacre (taking its title from a 1969 Yoshida Yoshishige film) is the first major study devoted to the examination and explanation of Japanese New Wave film. Desser organizes his volume around the defining motifs of the New Wave. Chapters examine in depth such themes as youth, identity, sexuality, and women, as they are revealed in the Japanese film of the sixties. Desser's research in Japanese film archives, his interviews with major figures of the movement, and his keen insight into Japanese culture combine to offer a solid and balanced analysis of films by Oshima, Shinoda, Imamura, Yoshida, Suzuki, and others.
Author | : Isolde Standish |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2006-05-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1441161546 |
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In A New History of Japanese Cinema Isolde Standish focuses on the historical development of Japanese film. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation. Adopting a thematic, exploratory approach, Standish links the concept of Japanese cinema as a system of communication with some of the central discourses of the twentieth century: modernism, nationalism, humanism, resistance, and gender. After an introduction outlining the earliest years of cinema in Japan, Standish demonstrates cinema's symbolic position in Japanese society in the 1930s - as both a metaphor and a motor of modernity. Moving into the late thirties and early forties, Standish analyses cinema's relationship with the state-focusing in particular on the war and occupation periods. The book's coverage of the post-occupation period looks at "romance" films in particular. Avant-garde directors came to the fore during the 1960s and early seventies, and their work is discussed in depth. The book concludes with an investigation of genre and gender in mainstream films of recent years. In grappling with Japanese film history and criticism, most western commentators have concentrated on offering interpretations of what have come to be considered "classic" films. A New History of Japanese Cinema takes a genuinely innovative approach to the subject, and should prove an essential resource for many years to come.
Author | : Isolde Standish |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1441125183 |
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A superb new study of Japanese culture in the post-war period, focusing on a handful of filmmakers who created movies for a politically conscious audience.
Author | : Jack Hunter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781871592931 |
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An illustrated guide to sex, blood and madness in Japanese exploitation cinema, including over 200 explicit and rare photographs.
Author | : Alexander Zahlten |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017-09-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822372460 |
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In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular industrial genres: Pink Film (independently distributed softcore pornographic films), Kadokawa (big-budget productions as part of a transmedia strategy), and V-Cinema (direct-to-video films). He examines the conditions of these films' production to demonstrate how the media industry itself becomes part of the politics of the media text and to highlight the complex negotiation between media and politics, culture, and identity in Japan. Zahlten points to a different history of film, one in which a once-powerful film industry transformed into becoming only one component within a complex media-mix ecology. In so doing, Zahlten opens new paths for uncovering similar broad processes in other large media societies. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Author | : Larissa Lai |
Publisher | : arsenal pulp press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1551523582 |
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“Part exoskeletal enjambment, part shared soft biology, Automaton Biographies wends through creative industries and uncommon commons, picking up the shards of both our latent futures and our Polaroid pasts.”—Mark Nowak, poet The first poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand) is a multilayered “autobiography” that puts an ear to the white noise of advertising, pop music, CNN, and biotechnology, exploring the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of “human.” Lai, who teaches English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is prominent within the women’s, LGBT, and Asian American communities.
Author | : Yuriko Furuhata |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0822355043 |
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During the 1960s and early 1970s, Japanese avant-garde filmmakers intensely explored the shifting role of the image in political activism and media events. Known as the "season of politics," the era was filled with widely covered dramatic events from hijackings and hostage crises to student protests. This season of politics was, Yuriko Furuhata argues, the season of image politics. Well-known directors, including Oshima Nagisa, Matsumoto Toshio, Wakamatsu Kōji, and Adachi Masao, appropriated the sensationalized media coverage of current events, turning news stories into material for timely critique and intermedial experimentation. 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. Furuhata demonstrates how avant-garde filmmaking intersected with media history, and how sophisticated debates about film theory emerged out of dialogues with photography, television, and other visual arts.
Author | : Donald Richie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
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Donald Richie, whose earlier works have done so much to introduce Japanese cinema to the West, has here written the first introduction to Japanese film. Written in a highly accessible style, this up-to-date history offers a study of those qualities which make a film distinctly Japanese. It will be an invaluable resource to students of film appreciation, as well as to readers with an interest in Japan.
Author | : Dudley Andrew |
Publisher | : Hall Reference Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Keiko I. McDonald |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
ISBN | : 9780838635025 |
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Noh, Kabuki, and Bunraku are the three distinct genres of classical theater that have made Japan's dramatic art unique. The audience steeped in these traditional theatrical forms sees many aspects of stage conventions in Japanese cinema. This intimacy makes the aesthetic/intellectual experience of films more enriching. Japanese Classical Theater in Films aims at heightening such awareness in the West, the awareness of the influence that these three major dramatic genres have had on Japan's cinematic tradition. Using an eclectic critical framework - a solid combination of historical and cultural approaches reinforced with formalist and auteurist perspectives - Keiko I. McDonald undertakes this much needed, ambitious task.