Deleuze Japanese Cinema And The Atom Bomb

Author : David Deamer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441145895

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Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb by David Deamer Pdf

David Deamer establishes the first ever sustained encounter between Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books and post-war Japanese cinema, exploring how Japanese films responded to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the early days of occupation political censorship to the social and cultural freedoms of the 1960s and beyond, the book examines how images of the nuclear event appear in post-war Japanese cinema. Each chapter begins by focusing upon one or more of three key Deleuzian themes – image, history and thought – before going on to look at a selection of films from 1945 to the present day. These include movies by well-known directors Kurosawa Akira, Shindo Kaneto, Oshima Nagisa and Imamura Shohei; popular and cult classics – Godzilla (1954), Akira (1988) and Tetsuo (1989); contemporary genre flicks – Ring (1998), Dead or Alive (1999) and Casshern (2004); the avant-garde and rarely seen documentaries. The author provides a series of tables to clarify the conceptual components deployed within the text, establishing a unique addition to Deleuze and cinema studies.

Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476620206

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The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema by Matthew Edwards Pdf

Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche. From the Occupation Period to the present, Japanese cinema had offered a means of coming to terms with one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. From the monster movies Gojira (1954) and Mothra (1961) to experimental works like Go Shibata's NN-891102 (1999), atomic bomb imagery features in all genres of Japanese film. This collection of new essays explores the cultural aftermath of the bombings and its expression in Japanese cinema. The contributors take on a number of complex issues, including the suffering of the survivors (hibakusha), the fear of future holocausts and the danger of nuclear warfare. Exclusive interviews with Go Shibata and critically acclaimed directors Roger Spottiswoode (Hiroshima) and Steven Okazaki (White Light/Black Rain) are included.

Author : Jerome F. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135350192

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Atomic Bomb Cinema by Jerome F. Shapiro Pdf

Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema. According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. Strangelove, and The Terminator as a body of work held together by ancient narrative and symbolic traditions that extol survival under devastating conditions. Drawing extensively on both English-language and Japanese-language sources, Shapiro argues that such films not only grapple with our nuclear anxieties, but also offer signs of hope that humanity is capable of repairing a damaged and divided world. www.atomicbombcinema.com

Author : Broderick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136883187

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Hibakusha Cinema by Broderick Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501368318

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Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze by Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough Pdf

Using theories of national, transnational and world cinema, and genre theories and psychoanlaysis as the basis of its argument, Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze argues that these understandings of Japanese horror films can be extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze. In particular, the complexities and nuances of how films like Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition (1999) and Kairo (2001) (and beyond) form dynamic, transformative global networks between industries, directors and audiences can be considered. Furthermore, understandings of how key horror tropes and motifs apply to these films (and others more broadly), such as the idea of the “monstrous-feminine”, can be transformed, allowing these models to become more flexible.

Author : Hideaki Fujiki,Alastair Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844576814

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The Japanese Cinema Book by Hideaki Fujiki,Alastair Phillips Pdf

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira Kurosawa to neglected popular genres such as the film musical and encompassing topics such as ecology, spectatorship, home-movies, colonial history and relations with Hollywood and Europe, The Japanese Cinema Book presents a set of new, and often surprising, perspectives on Japanese film. With its plural range of interdisciplinary perspectives based on the expertise of established and emerging scholars and critics, The Japanese Cinema Book provides a groundbreaking picture of the different ways in which Japanese cinema may be understood as a local, regional, national, transnational and global phenomenon. The book's innovative structure combines general surveys of a particular historical topic or critical approach with various micro-level case studies. It argues there is no single fixed Japanese cinema, but instead a fluid and varied field of Japanese filmmaking cultures that continue to exist in a dynamic relationship with other cinemas, media and regions. The Japanese Cinema Book is divided into seven inter-related sections: · Theories and Approaches · * Institutions and Industry · * Film Style · * Genre · * Times and Spaces of Representation · * Social Contexts · * Flows and Interactions

Author : Jinhee Choi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190254971

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Reorienting Ozu by Jinhee Choi Pdf

Considered by many film critics as the master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. The Cinema of Ozu presents new perspectives on Ozu's aesthetic sensibility and his influence on global art cinema directors.

Author : Steven T. Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319706290

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Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations by Steven T. Brown Pdf

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations undertakes a critical reassessment of Japanese horror cinema by attending to its intermediality and transnational hybridity in relation to world horror cinema. Neither a conventional film history nor a thematic survey of Japanese horror cinema, this study offers a transnational analysis of selected films from new angles that shed light on previously ignored aspects of the genre, including sound design, framing techniques, and lighting, as well as the slow attack and long release times of J-horror’s slow-burn style, which have contributed significantly to the development of its dread-filled cinema of sensations.

Author : Yuko Shibata
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824876258

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Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Yuko Shibata Pdf

National, disciplinary, and linguistic boundaries all play a role in academic study and nowhere is this more apparent than in traditional humanities scholarship surrounding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. How would our understanding of this seminal event change if we read Japanese and Euro-American texts together and across disciplines? In Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yuko Shibata juxtaposes literary and cinematic texts usually considered separately to highlight the “connected divides” in the production of knowledge on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, shedding new light on both texts and contexts in the process. Shibata takes up two canonical works—American journalist John Hersey’s account, Hiroshima, and French director Alain Resnais’ avant-garde film, Hiroshima Mon Amour—that are traditionally excluded from study in Japanese literature and cinema. By examining Hersey’s Hiroshima in conjunction with The Bells of Nagasaki (Nagai Takashi) and Children of the A-Bomb (Osada Arata), both Japanese bestsellers, Shibata demonstrates how influential Hersey’s Hiroshima has been in forging the normative narrative of the hibakusha experience in Japan. She also compares Hiroshima Mon Amour with Kamei Fumio’s documentary, Still It’s Good to Live, whose footage Resnais borrowed to depict atomic bomb victimhood. Resnais’ avant-garde masterpiece, she contends, is the palimpsest of Kamei’s surrealist documentary; both blur the binaries between realist and avant-garde representations. Reading Hiroshima Mon Amour in its historical context enables Shibata to offer an entirely new analysis of Renais’ work. She also delineates how Japanese films came to produce the martyrdom narrative of the hibakusha in the early postwar period. Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki allows us to trace the complex and entangled political threads that link representations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, reminding us that narratives and images deploy different effects in different places and times. This highly original approach establishes a new kind of transnational and transpacific studies on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and raises the possibility of a comparative area studies to match the age of world literature.

Author : Markus Nornes
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816640467

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Japanese Documentary Film by Markus Nornes Pdf

Among Asian countries--where until recently documentary filmmaking was largely the domain of central governments--Japan was exceptional for the vigor of its nonfiction film industry. And yet, for all its aesthetic, historical, and political interest, the Japanese documentary remains little known and largely unstudied outside of Japan. This is the first English-language study of the subject, an enlightening close look at the first fifty years of documentary film theory and practice in Japan. Beginning with films made by foreigners in the nineteenth century and concluding with the first two films made after Japan's surrender in 1945, Abe Mark Nornes moves from a "prehistory of the documentary, " through innovations of the proletarian film movement, to the hardening of style and conventions that started with the Manchurian Incident films and continued through the Pacific War. Nornes draws on a wide variety of archival sources--including Japanese studio records, secret police reports, government memos, letters, military tribunal testimonies, and more--to chart shifts in documentary style against developments in the history of modern Japan.

Author : Eric San Juan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538110904

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Akira Kurosawa by Eric San Juan Pdf

This is an accessible look at the films of Akira Kurosawa, whose movies are works of art and popular culture touchstones, influencing such directors as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. The author examines all of the director’s works and explains why that film is culturally significant and what makes it an enjoyable viewing experience.

Author : Jerome F. Shapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090062109

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Atomic Bomb Cinema by Jerome F. Shapiro Pdf

Author : David Deamer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474407700

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Deleuze's Cinema Books by David Deamer Pdf

Deleuze's two Cinema books explore film through the creation of a series of philosophical concepts. Not only bewildering in number, Deleuze's writing procedures mean his exegesis is both complex and elusive. Three questions emerge: What are the underlying principles of the taxonomy? How many concepts are there, and what do they describe? How might each be used in engaging with a film?David Deamer's book is the first to fully respond to these three questions, unearthing the philosophies inspiring Deleuze's classifications, exploring every concept and reading a film for each. Clearly and concisely mapping the Cinema books for newcomers to Deleuzian film studies, Deamer also opens up new areas of enquiry for expert readers.

Author : Hannah Holtzman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438497853

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Through a Nuclear Lens by Hannah Holtzman Pdf

The Franco-Japanese coproduction Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is one of the most important films for global art cinema and for the French New Wave. In Through a Nuclear Lens, Hannah Holtzman examines this film and the transnational cycle it has inspired, as well as its legacy after the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. In a study that includes formal and theoretical analysis, archival research, and interviews, Holtzman shows the emergence of a new kind of nuclear film, one that attends to the everyday effects of nuclear disaster and its impact on our experience of space and time. The focus on Franco-Japanese exchange in cinema since the postwar period reveals a reorientation of the primarily aesthetic preoccupations in the tradition of Japonisme to center around technological and environmental concerns. The book demonstrates how French filmmakers, ever since Hiroshima mon amour, have looked to Japan in part to better understand nuclear uncertainty in France.

Author : Kyo Maclear
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0791440052

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Beclouded Visions by Kyo Maclear Pdf

The trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrates the limits of dominant visual models, such as photography, for providing adequate historical memory. The author argues that collective traumas suggest the need for a prolonged gaze, such as can be provided by expressive art.