The Films of Oshima Nagisa : Images of a Japanese Iconoclast / Maureen Turim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turim, Maureen Cheryn, 1951- author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932---Criticism and interpretation.

Ōshima, Nagisa.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 314 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For almost forty years, Oshima has produced provocative films that have received wide distribution and international acclaim. Formally innovative as well as socially daring, they provide a running commentary, direct and indirect, on the cultural and political tensions of postwar Japan. Best known today for his controversial films In the Realm of the Senses and The Empire of Passion, Oshima engages issues of sexuality and power, domination and identity, which Maureen Turim explores in relation to psychoanalytic and postmodern theory. The films' complex representation of women in Japanese society receives detailed and careful scrutiny, as does their political engagement with the Japanese student movement, postwar anti-American sentiments, and critiques of Stalinist tendencies of the Left. Turim also considers Oshima's surprising comedies, his experimentation with Brechtian and avant-garde theatricality as well as reflexive textuality, and his essayist documentaries in this look at an artist's gifted and vital attempt to put his will on film.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAPTER ONE. Cultural Iconoclasm and Contexts of Innovation

CHAPTER TWO. Cruel Stories of Youth and Politics

CHAPTER THREE. Rituals, Desire, Death Leaving One's Will on Film

CHAPTER FOUR. Signs of Sexuality in Oshima's Tales of Passion

CHAPTER FIVE. Warring Subjects

CHAPTER SIX. Popular Song, Fantasies, and Comedies of Iconoclasm

CHAPTER SEVEN. Documents of Guilt and Empire

CHAPTER EIGHT. Feminist Troubles on a Map of Split Subjectivities

Conclusion: Whither Oshima?

FILMOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520918283

0520918282

9780585112992

0585112991

OCLC:

1149414638