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The Japanese Film

Joseph L. Anderson,Donald Richie
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Author : Joseph L. Anderson,Donald Richie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691187464

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Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film industry and the continuing unique art of the Japanese film. Now back in print with updated sections, major revaluations, a comprehensive international bibliography, and an exceptional collection of 168 stills ranging over eight decades, this book remains the unchallenged reference for all who seek a broad understanding of the aesthetic, historical, and economic elements of motion pictures from Japan.

The Japanese Cinema Book

Hideaki Fujiki,Alastair Phillips
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Author : Hideaki Fujiki,Alastair Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 44,5 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

Contemporary Japanese Film

Mark Schilling
Contemporary Japanese Film Book PDF

Author : Mark Schilling
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.

Reading a Japanese Film

Keiko I. McDonald
Reading a Japanese Film Book PDF

Author : Keiko I. McDonald
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0824829395

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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, Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to film analysis. Sixteen "readings" of films currently available on DVD with English subtitles put theory into practice as she considers a wide range of work, from familiar classics by Ozu and Kurosawa to the films of a younger generation of directors.

Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies

Abé Markus Nornes,Aaron Gerow
Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies Book PDF

Author : Abé Markus Nornes,Aaron Gerow
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781929280544

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Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies by Abé Markus Nornes,Aaron Gerow Pdf

The Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies provides a snapshot of all the archival and bibliographic resources available to students and scholars of Japanese cinema. Among the nations of the world, Japan has enjoyed an impressively lively print culture related to cinema. The first film books and periodicals appeared shortly after the birth of cinema, proliferating wildly in the 1910s with only the slightest pause in the dark days of World War II. The numbers of publications match the enormous scale of film production, but with the lack of support for film studies in Japan, much of it remains as uncharted territory, with few maps to negotiate the maze of material. This book is the first comprehensive guide ever published for approaching the complex archive for Japanese cinema. It lists all the libraries and film archives in the world with significant collections of film prints, still photographs, archival records, books, and periodicals. It provides a full annotated bibliography of the core books and magazines for the field. And it supplies hints for how to find and access materials for any research project. Above and beyond that, Nornes and Gerow’s Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies constitutes a comprehensive overview of the impressive dimensions and depth of the print culture surrounding Japanese film, and a guideline for future research in the field. This is an essential book for anyone seriously thinking about Japan and its cinema.

The Japanese Filmography

Stuart Galbraith IV
The Japanese Filmography Book PDF

Author : Stuart Galbraith IV
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078644679X

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This encyclopedic reference work treats a near-century's worth of Japanese films released in the United States in theaters or on video and the important actors, directors, producers and technical personnel involved in them. For people, each entry provides birth date, education, death when appropriate, a brief biography, and a filmography. The movies are arranged by original U.S. release titles, and include cast and production credits, studio, Japanese and U.S. distributor, sound format, running time in both the U.S. and Japanese versions, release dates in both countries, alternate titles, and rating, when appropriate, of U.S. release.

Kurosawa

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Kurosawa Book PDF

Author : Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Japanese Cinema

Alastair Phillips,Julian Stringer
Japanese Cinema Book PDF

Author : Alastair Phillips,Julian Stringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134334216

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Japanese Cinema by Alastair Phillips,Julian Stringer Pdf

Japanese Cinema includes twenty-four chapters on key films of Japanese cinema, from the silent era to the present day, providing a comprehensive introduction to Japanese cinema history and Japanese culture and society. Studying a range of important films, from Late Spring, Seven Samurai and In the Realm of the Senses to Godzilla, Hana-Bi and Ring, the collection includes discussion of all the major directors of Japanese cinema including Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Oshima, Suzuki, Kitano and Miyazaki. Each chapter discusses the film in relation to aesthetic, industrial or critical issues and ends with a complete filmography for each director. The book also includes a full glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography of readings on Japanese cinema. Bringing together leading international scholars and showcasing pioneering new research, this book is essential reading for all students and general readers interested in one of the world’s most important film industries.

Japanese Film Directors

Audie Bock
Japanese Film Directors Book PDF

Author : Audie Bock
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X001122220

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Japanese Film Directors by Audie Bock Pdf

Taking ten filmmakers, such as Oshima and Kurosawa, and following their caree chronologically has resulted in a history of Japanese film as well as a stud of each master.

A Hundred Years of Japanese Film

ドナルドリッチー
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film Book PDF

Author : ドナルドリッチー
Publisher : Kodansha International
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 4770029950

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A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by ドナルドリッチー Pdf

Richie offers movie buffs and serious film students a lively, comprehensive overview of Japanese cinema from the end of the 19th century to the present. Updated DVD and VHS listings feature new releases, classic films, and reviews.

Japanese Classical Theater in Films

Keiko I. McDonald
Japanese Classical Theater in Films Book PDF

Author : Keiko I. McDonald
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0838635024

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Japanese Classical Theater in Films by Keiko I. McDonald Pdf

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.

Japanese Films

Beverley Bare Buehrer
Japanese Films Book PDF

Author : Beverley Bare Buehrer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786473797

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Japanese Films by Beverley Bare Buehrer Pdf

Japanese culture as seen in film is a world of arranged marriages and loyalty beyond death, a world where suicide is an heroic act. Or a world where life's sadness can be echoed in the falling petals of cherry blossoms. It is a world simultaneously exotic but also universal in appeal. From Souls on the Road to Tampopo, this book is a film-by-film look at more than 80 of Japan's best and most important movies. The entries, in chronological order, present the classics in many actors' and directors' careers and point out the hallmarks of their style while offering a history of the Japanese film industry. Japan's unique characteristics and historical background, which may be unfamiliar to Western audiences, are also explained in the entries, thus adding to the reader's enjoyment and understanding of these films.

Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film

Chris D.
Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film Book PDF

Author : Chris D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857715470

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Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film by Chris D. Pdf

"Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film" offers an extraordinary close-up of the hitherto overlooked golden age of Japanese cult, action and exploitation cinema from the early 1950s through to the late 1970s, and up to the present day. Having unique access to the top maverick filmmakers and Japanese genre film icons, Chris D. brings together interviews with, and original writings on, the lives and films of such transgressive directors as Kinji Fukasaku ("Battles Without Honour and Humanity"), Seijun Suzuki ("Branded to Kill") and Koji Wakamatsu ("Ecstasy of the Angels") as well as performers like Shinichi 'Sonny' Chiba ("The Streetfighter", "Kill Bill Vol. 1") and glamorous actress Meiko Kaji ("Lady Snowblood"). Bringing the story up-to-date with an overview of such Japanese 'enfants terrible' as Takashi Miike ("Audition") and Kiyoshi Kurasawa ("Cure"), this book also provides a compendium of facts and extras including filmographies, related bibliographies on genre fiction including Manga, and a section on female yakuzas. Illustrated with fantastic stills and posters from some of Japan's finest cult and action films, this is a veritable bible for fans and newcomers alike.

What Is Japanese Cinema?

Yomota Inuhiko
What Is Japanese Cinema Book PDF

Author : Yomota Inuhiko
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231549486

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What Is Japanese Cinema? by Yomota Inuhiko Pdf

What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu’s sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form. He covers the history of Japanese film from the silent era to the rise of J-Horror in its historical, technological, and global contexts. Yomota shows how Japanese film has been shaped by traditonal art forms such as kabuki theater as well as foreign influences spanning Hollywood and Italian neorealism. Along the way, he considers the first golden age of Japanese film; colonial filmmaking in Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan; the impact of World War II and the U.S. occupation; the Japanese film industry’s rise to international prominence during the 1950s and 1960s; and the challenges and technological shifts of recent decades. Alongside a larger thematic discussion of what defines and characterizes Japanese film, Yomota provides insightful readings of canonical directors including Kurosawa, Ozu, Suzuki, and Miyazaki as well as genre movies, documentaries, indie film, and pornography. An incisive and opinionated history, What Is Japanese Cinema? is essential reading for admirers and students of Japan’s contributions to the world of film.

Japanese Mythology in Film

Yoshiko Okuyama
Japanese Mythology in Film Book PDF

Author : Yoshiko Okuyama
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780739190937

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A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns itself into a killing machine. A Heian-era Taoist slays evil spirits with magic spells from yin-yang philosophy. A young mortician carefully prepares bodies for their journey to the afterlife. A teenage girl drinks a cup of life-giving sake, not knowing its irreversible transformative power. These are scenes from the visually enticing, spiritually eclectic media of Japanese movies and anime. The narratives of courageous heroes and heroines and the myths and legends of deities and their abodes are not just recurring motifs of the cinematic fantasy world. They are pop culture’s representations of sacred subtexts in Japan. Japanese Mythology in Film takes a semiotic approach to uncovering such religious and folkloric tropes and subtexts embedded in popular Japanese movies and anime. Part I introduces film semiotics with plain definitions of terminology. Through familiar cinematic examples, it emphasizes the myth-making nature of modern-day film and argues that semiotics can be used as a theoretical tool for reading film. Part II presents case studies of eight popular Japanese films as models of semiotic analysis. While discussing each film’s use of common mythological motifs such as death and rebirth, its case study also unveils more covert cultural signifiers and folktale motifs, including jizo (a savior of sentient beings) and kori (bewitching foxes and raccoon dogs), hidden in the Japanese filmic text.