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Japanese film and the floating mind : cinematic contemplations of being / Justin Vicari.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.J3 V53 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vicari, Justin, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Japan--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Japan.
- History.
- Ontology in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- Summary:
- "This book provides a cultural, historical and philosophical study of Japanese film, from the silent era to the present, focusing on its expansive consciousness. It examines masterpieces by Yasujir; Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Nagisa Oshima and other directors, discussing their influence on the Japanese culture of esoteric Zen Buddhism and relating them to recent neuroscientific theories of brain trauma"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: paradoxes of perception: in a ghostly theater
- Pt. 1. Toward the last ontology
- Moon in water
- The broken heart of ontology
- Anxieties of change, changing anxieties
- Extremisms
- The last ontology
- Pt. 2. The floating world
- Refugees of the floating world
- The meanings of the wound
- Pt. 3. Emperor worship
- The problem of emperor worship
- Naruse: an early and enduring critic of emperor worship
- Ozu, after surrender
- "Just a memory": the figure of the emperor in postwar melodrama
- Three films: Mizoguchi's Women of the night, Imamura's Outlaw Matsuo comes home, Wakamatsu's Caterpillar
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476664989
- 1476664986
- OCLC:
- 934885355
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