The cinema of Ozu Yasujiro : histories of the everyday / Woojeong Joo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joo, Woojeong, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963--Criticism and interpretation.

Ozu, Yasujirō.

Motion picture producers and directors--Japan.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression, war and economic resurgence.

Contents:

Introduction : Ozu, history and the everyday

Early Ozu : Shoshimin film and everyday realism

Ozu in transition : the coming of sound and family melodrama

Wartime Ozu : between bourgeois drama and national policy film

Postwar Ozu : Ozu's Occupation-era film and Tokyo regained

Late Ozu : new generation and new salaryman film

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-2454-6

1-4744-3477-0

0-7486-9633-4

OCLC:

1312727163