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Contemporary Japanese film / by Mark Schilling.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.J3 S37 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schilling, Mark, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Japan--Reviews.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Japan--Interviews.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Japan--Biography.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Interviews.
- Reviews.
- Physical Description:
- 399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Weatherhill, 1999.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Essays
- Mainstream Japanese Film 14
- The New Breed of Japanese Film 35
- The New Wave of the Nineties 43
- Interviews and Profiles
- Masahiro Shinoda 53
- Akira Kurosawa 56
- Yoji Yamada 61
- Kazuyoshi Okuyama 64
- Yoichi Sai 66
- Isao Takahata 68
- Shunji lwai 70
- Masayuki Suo 72
- Juzo Itami 74
- Naomi Sento 84
- Makoto Shinozaki 87
- Takeshi Kitano 91
- Jun Ichikawa 101
- Takenori Sento 107
- Hirokazu Koreeda 116
- Photos 119
- Film Reviews (alphabetical by Japanese title) 133.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0834804158
- OCLC:
- 42643451
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