Forest of pressure : Ogawa Shinsuke and postwar Japanese documentary / Abe Mark Nornes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nornes, Markus.

Series:

Visible evidence ; v. 18.

Visible evidence ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ogawa, Shinsuke, 1936-1992--Criticism and interpretation.

Ogawa, Shinsuke.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ogawa Productions-known in Asia as Ogawa Pro-was an influential filmmaking collective that started in the 1960's under the direction of Ogawa Shinsuke (1936-1992). Between 1968 and the mid-1970's, Ogawa Pro electrified the Japanese student movement with its Sanrizuka documentary series-eight films chronicling the massive protests over the construction of the Narita airport-which has since become the standard against which documentaries are measured in Japan. A critical biography of a collective, Forest of Pressure explores the emergence of socially committed documentary filmmaking in postwar Jap

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Ogawa as Postwar Documentarist; 2 Jieiso: Ogawa's First Collectivity; 3 The Sanrizuka Series; 4 Segue: From "Sanrizuka Ogawa Pro" to "Documentary Cinema Ogawa Pro"; 5 The Magino Village Story; 6 After Ogawa; Postscript; Notes; Filmography; Distribution Resources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-287) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 289-299.

ISBN:

0-8166-9894-5

OCLC:

476120197