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Contemporary Japanese Film

Mark Schilling
Contemporary Japanese Film Book PDF

Author : Mark Schilling
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780834804159

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This comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profiles of leading directors and producers. Interpretive essays provide an overview of some of the key issues and themes of the decade, and provide background and context for the treatment of individual films and artists. In Mark Schilling's view, Japanese film is presently in a period of creative ferment, with a lively independent sector challenging the conventions of the industry mainstream. Younger filmmakers are rejecting the stale formulas that have long characterized major studio releases, reaching out to new influences from other media—television, comics, music videos, and even computer games—and from both the West and other Asian cultures. In the process they are creating fresh and exciting films that range from the meditative to the manic, offering hope that Japanese film will not only survive but thrive as it enters the new millennium.

The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film

Timothy Iles
The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film Book PDF

Author : Timothy Iles
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789047424697

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The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film by Timothy Iles Pdf

A concise, textually analytical study of the ways in which works of contemporary Japanese cinema have explored and reflected a 'crisis' in Japan's changing conceptions of individuality and identity approaching the central issue from a range of aspects.

Japanese Cinema and Otherness

Mika Ko
Japanese Cinema and Otherness Book PDF

Author : Mika Ko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135238865

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Japanese Cinema and Otherness by Mika Ko Pdf

Over the last 20 years, ethnic minority groups have been increasingly featured in Japanese Films. However, the way these groups are presented has not been a subject of investigation. This study examines the representation of so-called Others – foreigners, ethnic minorities, and Okinawans – in Japanese cinema. By combining textual and contextual analysis, this book analyses the narrative and visual style of films of contemporary Japanese cinema in relation to their social and historical context of production and reception. Mika Ko considers the ways in which ‘multicultural’ sentiments have emerged in contemporary Japanese cinema. In this respect, Japanese films may be seen not simply to have ‘reflected’ more general trends within Japanese society but to have played an active role in constructing and communicating different versions of multiculturalism. In particular, the book is concerned with how representations of ‘otherness’ in contemporary Japanese cinema may be identified as reinforcing or subverting dominant discourses of ‘Japaneseness’. the author book also illuminates the ways in which Japanese films have engaged in the dramatisation and elaboration of ideas and attitudes surrounding contemporary Japanese nationalism and multiculturalism. By locating contemporary Japanese cinema in a social and political context, Japanese Cinema and Otherness makes an original contribution to scholarship on Japanese film study but also to bridging the gap between Japanese studies and film studies.

Nightmare Japan

Jay McRoy
Nightmare Japan Book PDF

Author : Jay McRoy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401205320

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Nightmare Japan by Jay McRoy Pdf

Over the last two decades, Japanese filmmakers have produced some of the most important and innovative works of cinematic horror. At once visually arresting, philosophically complex, and politically charged, films by directors like Tsukamoto Shinya (Tetsuo: The Iron Man [1988] and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer [1992]), Sato Hisayasu (Muscle [1988] and Naked Blood [1995]) Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Cure [1997], Séance [2000], and Kaïro [2001]), Nakata Hideo (Ringu [1998], Ringu II [1999], and Dark Water [2002]), and Miike Takashi (Audition [1999] and Ichi the Killer [2001]) continually revisit and redefine the horror genre in both its Japanese and global contexts. In the process, these and other directors of contemporary Japanese horror film consistently contribute exciting and important new visions, from postmodern reworkings of traditional avenging spirit narratives to groundbreaking works of cinematic terror that position depictions of radical or ‘monstrous’ alterity/hybridity as metaphors for larger socio-political concerns, including shifting gender roles, reconsiderations of the importance of the extended family as a social institution, and reconceptualisations of the very notion of cultural and national boundaries.

A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors

Alexander Jacoby
A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors Book PDF

Author : Alexander Jacoby
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781611725315

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A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors by Alexander Jacoby Pdf

This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes their films worth watching. Included are artistic profiles of everyone from Yutaka Abe to Isao Yukisada, including masters like Kinji Fukasaku, Juzo Itami, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Yoji Yamada. Each entry includes a critical summary and filmography, making this book an essential reference and guide. UK-based Alexander Jacoby is a writer and researcher on Japanese film.

Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi

Adam Bingham
Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana Bi Book PDF

Author : Adam Bingham
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748683741

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Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi by Adam Bingham Pdf

This book studies the key genres in contemporary Japanese cinema through analysis of their key representative films. It considers both those films whose generic lineage is clearly definable (samurai, yakuza, horror) as well as the singularity of several recent trends in the country's filmmaking (such as magic realist filmmaking).

The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture

Raechel Dumas
The Monstrous Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture Book PDF

Author : Raechel Dumas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319924656

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The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture by Raechel Dumas Pdf

This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating shōjo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body in mytho-fiction. Situating the titles examined here amid discourses of crisis that have materialized in contemporary Japan, Dumas illuminates the ambivalent pleasure of the monstrous-feminine as a trope that both articulates anxieties centered on shifting configurations of subjectivity and nationhood, and elaborates novel possibilities for identity negotiation and social formation in a period marked by dramatic change.

Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age

Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age Book PDF

Author : Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824865887

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Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano Pdf

Digital technology has transformed cinema’s production, distribution, and consumption patterns and pushed contemporary cinema toward increasingly global markets. In the case of Japanese cinema, a once moribund industry has been revitalized as regional genres such as anime and Japanese horror now challenge Hollywood’s preeminence in global cinema. In her rigorous investigations of J-horror, personal documentary, anime, and ethnic cinema, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano deliberates on the role of the transnational in bringing to the mainstream what were formerly marginal B-movie genres. She argues persuasively that convergence culture, which these films represent, constitutes Japan’s response to the variegated flows of global economics and culture. With its timely analysis of new modes of production emerging from the struggles of Japanese filmmakers and animators to finance and market their work in a post-studio era, this book holds critical implications for the future of other national cinemas fighting to remain viable in a global marketplace. As academics in film and media studies prepare a wholesale shift toward a transnational perspective of film, Wada-Marciano cautions against jettisoning the entire national cinema paradigm. Discussing the technological advances and the new cinematic flows of consumption, she demonstrates that while contemporary Japanese film, on the one hand, expresses the transnational as an object of desire (i.e., a form of total cosmopolitanism), on the other hand, that desire is indeed inseparable from Japan’s national identity. Drawing on a substantial number of interviews with auteur directors such as Kore’eda Hirokazu, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, and Kawase Naomi, and incisive analysis of select film texts, this compelling, original work challenges the presumption that Hollywood is the only authentically “global” cinema.

Women in Japanese Cinema

Tamae K. Prindle
Women in Japanese Cinema Book PDF

Author : Tamae K. Prindle
Publisher : Merwinasia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0983299145

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Women in Japanese Cinema by Tamae K. Prindle Pdf

By studying Japanese films and their associated literature, Tamae K. Prindle reveals the covert stories of Japanese women versus orthodox history. Fifteen films bring this theme into focus. Imamura Shohei's The Ballad of Narayama , Naruse Mikio's Mother, Idemitsu Mako's Great Mother , Kinugasa Teinousuke's Gate of Hell , Kurosawa Akira's No Regrets for Our Youth , Kuwabata Kagenobu's Love and Lie , Toyoda Shiro's The Mistress , Kumai Kei's Sandakan Brothel 8, Takahashi Banmei's Le Nouveau Monde Amoureux, Nishikawa Katsumi's A Dancing Girl in Izu , Obayashi Nobuhiko's Chizuko's Younger Sister , Ichikawa Jun's Tsugumi , Mizoguchi Kenji's Life of Oharu, Itami Juzo's Tampopo , and Ishikawa Jun's Grass Fish on a Tree. "Mother," "Wife," "Whore," "Girl" and "Woman," represent categories the public used to code Japanese women in the pre-feminist age. Each chapter features three films depicting women in the premodern age, in the World War II period, and in late twentieth century Japan, and each embraces the three films within the perspective of ecological feminism, sexuality, alienation, illusion, and power-over/power-to. Shedding light on cultural, historical, and/or ideological backgrounds of the films under study in important new ways, this book breaks new ground in the study of women in Japanese culture. Book jacket.

Introduction to Japanese Horror Film

Colette Balmain
Introduction to Japanese Horror Film Book PDF

Author : Colette Balmain
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748630592

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Introduction to Japanese Horror Film by Colette Balmain Pdf

This book is a major historical and cultural overview of an increasingly popular genre. Starting with the cultural phenomenon of Godzilla, it explores the evolution of Japanese horror from the 1950s through to contemporary classics of Japanese horror cinema such as Ringu and Ju-On: The Grudge. Divided thematically, the book explores key motifs such as the vengeful virgin, the demonic child, the doomed lovers and the supernatural serial killer, situating them within traditional Japanese mythology and folk-tales. The book also considers the aesthetics of the Japanese horror film, and the mechanisms through which horror is expressed at a visceral level through the use of setting, lighting, music and mise-en-scene. It concludes by considering the impact of Japanese horror on contemporary American cinema by examining the remakes of Ringu, Dark Water and Ju-On: The Grudge.The emphasis is on accessibility, and whilst the book is primarily marketed towards film and media students, it will also be of interest to anyone interested in Japanese horror film, cultural mythology and folk-tales, cinematic aesthetics and film theory.

Art, Cult and Commerce

Mark Schilling
Art Cult and Commerce Book PDF

Author : Mark Schilling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1937220095

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Art, Cult and Commerce by Mark Schilling Pdf

From popular genre films to cult avant-garde works, this book is an essential guide to Japan's vibrant cinema culture. It collects two decades of the best of Mark Schilling's film writing for Variety, Japan Times, and other publications. The book offers an in-depth look at hundreds of landmark Japanese movies as well as undeservedly neglected ones. The essays and detailed analyses are interwoven with more than sixty interviews showcasing Japan's most talented directors and stars. This book enables students, teachers, and lovers of Japanese cinema to make new discoveries while learning more about their favorite films. Mark Schilling set off for Japan in 1975 to immerse himself in the culture, learn the language, and haunt the theaters. He has been there ever since. In 1989 he became a regular film reviewer for The Japan Times, and has written on Japanese film for publications including Variety, Screen International, Premier, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Japan Quarterly, Winds, Cinemaya, and Kinema Jumpo.

The portrayal of psychological stability in contemporary Japanese film : bend, blend or break

Timothy Iles
The portrayal of psychological stability in contemporary Japanese film bend blend or break Book PDF

Author : Timothy Iles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0773453148

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The portrayal of psychological stability in contemporary Japanese film : bend, blend or break by Timothy Iles Pdf

This study explores the ways in which contemporary Japanese films present and treat the problem of identity.The author analyzes a wide range of films produced in the past twenty years to demonstrate the various waysin which filmmakers have conceptualized this problem and have presented either socialcritiques or solutions.

Kurosawa

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Kurosawa Book PDF

Author : Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0822325195

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Kurosawa by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Pdf

This work will become not only the newly definitive study of Kurosawa, but will redefine the field of Japanese cinema studies, particularly as the field exists in the west.

The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film

Tom Mes,Jasper Sharp
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film Book PDF

Author : Tom Mes,Jasper Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1880656892

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The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes,Jasper Sharp Pdf

Thanks to directors such as Kitano, Miike and Miyazaki, Japanese cinema has recently undergone something of a resurgence. This title profiles the work of these established film-makers, as well as looking at the creations of new, up-and-coming directors.

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Howard Hibbett
Contemporary Japanese Literature Book PDF

Author : Howard Hibbett
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0887274366

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Contemporary Japanese Literature by Howard Hibbett Pdf

Lovers of Japanese and Asian literature, rejoice! This superb survey of one of the most active and interesting literary scenes of the twentieth century is back in print.