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Japanese cinema [electronic resource] : texts and contexts / edited by Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: 18, 364 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203374641
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
1. The salaryman's panic time : Ozu Yasujirō's I was born, but ... (1932) / Alastair Phillips -- 2. All for money : Mizoguchi Kenji's Osaka elegy (1936) / Mori Toshie -- 3. Turning serious : Yamanaka Sadao's Humanity and paper balloons (1937) / Freda Freiberg -- 4. Country retreat : Shimizu Hiroshi's Ornamental hairpin (1941) / Alexander Jacoby -- 5. The riddle of the vase : Ozu Yasujirō's Late spring (1949) / Abé Mark Nornes -- 6. History through cinema : Mizoguchi Kenji's The life of O-Haru (1952) / Joan Mellen -- 7. The menace from the south seas : Honda Ishirō's Godzilla (1954) / Yomota Inuhiko -- 8. Seven Samurai and six women : Kurosawa Akira's Seven samurai (1954) / D.P. Martinez -- 9. Women's stories in post-war Japan : Naruse Mikio's Late chrysanthemums (1954) / Catherine Russell -- 10. A cinematic creation : Ichikawa Kon's Conflagration (1958) / Keiko I. McDonald -- 11. Modernization without modernity : Masumura Yasuzō's Giants and toys (1958) / Michael Raine.
12. Questions of the new : Ōshima Nagisa's Cruel story of youth (1960) / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- 13. Ethnicizing the body and film : Teshigahara Hiroshi's Woman in the dunes (1964) / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- 14. Dark visions of Japanese film noir : Suzuki Seijun's Branded to kill (1967) / Daisuke Miyao -- 15. Eroticism in two dimensions : Shinoda Masahiro's Double suicide (1969) / Carole Cavanaugh -- 16. Transgression and the politics of porn : Ōshima Nagisa's In the realm of the senses (1976) / Isolde Standish -- 17. Unsettled visions : Imamura Shōhei's Vengeance is mine (1979) / Alastair Phillips -- 18. Playing with postmodernism : Morita Yoshimitsu's The family game (1983) / Aaron Gerow -- 19. Transgression and retribution : Yanagimachi Mitsuo's Fire festival (1985) / Donald Richie -- 20. Community and connection : Itami Jūzō's Tampopo (1985) / Linda Ehrlich -- 21. The imagination of the transcendent : Kore-eda Hirokazu's Maborosi (1995) / David Desser -- 22. Therapy for him and her : Kitano Takeshi's Hana-bi (1997) / Darrell William Davis -- 23. The original and the copy : Nakata Hideo's Ring (1998) / Julian Stringer -- 24. The global markets for anime : Miyazaki Hayao's Spirited away (2001) / Rayna Denison.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349) and index.

1. The salaryman's panic time : Ozu Yasujirō's I was born, but ... (1932) / Alastair Phillips -- 2. All for money : Mizoguchi Kenji's Osaka elegy (1936) / Mori Toshie -- 3. Turning serious : Yamanaka Sadao's Humanity and paper balloons (1937) / Freda Freiberg -- 4. Country retreat : Shimizu Hiroshi's Ornamental hairpin (1941) / Alexander Jacoby -- 5. The riddle of the vase : Ozu Yasujirō's Late spring (1949) / Abé Mark Nornes -- 6. History through cinema : Mizoguchi Kenji's The life of O-Haru (1952) / Joan Mellen -- 7. The menace from the south seas : Honda Ishirō's Godzilla (1954) / Yomota Inuhiko -- 8. Seven Samurai and six women : Kurosawa Akira's Seven samurai (1954) / D.P. Martinez -- 9. Women's stories in post-war Japan : Naruse Mikio's Late chrysanthemums (1954) / Catherine Russell -- 10. A cinematic creation : Ichikawa Kon's Conflagration (1958) / Keiko I. McDonald -- 11. Modernization without modernity : Masumura Yasuzō's Giants and toys (1958) / Michael Raine.

12. Questions of the new : Ōshima Nagisa's Cruel story of youth (1960) / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- 13. Ethnicizing the body and film : Teshigahara Hiroshi's Woman in the dunes (1964) / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- 14. Dark visions of Japanese film noir : Suzuki Seijun's Branded to kill (1967) / Daisuke Miyao -- 15. Eroticism in two dimensions : Shinoda Masahiro's Double suicide (1969) / Carole Cavanaugh -- 16. Transgression and the politics of porn : Ōshima Nagisa's In the realm of the senses (1976) / Isolde Standish -- 17. Unsettled visions : Imamura Shōhei's Vengeance is mine (1979) / Alastair Phillips -- 18. Playing with postmodernism : Morita Yoshimitsu's The family game (1983) / Aaron Gerow -- 19. Transgression and retribution : Yanagimachi Mitsuo's Fire festival (1985) / Donald Richie -- 20. Community and connection : Itami Jūzō's Tampopo (1985) / Linda Ehrlich -- 21. The imagination of the transcendent : Kore-eda Hirokazu's Maborosi (1995) / David Desser -- 22. Therapy for him and her : Kitano Takeshi's Hana-bi (1997) / Darrell William Davis -- 23. The original and the copy : Nakata Hideo's Ring (1998) / Julian Stringer -- 24. The global markets for anime : Miyazaki Hayao's Spirited away (2001) / Rayna Denison.

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