Tanaka Kinuyo : nation, stardom and female subjectivity / edited by Irene González-López and Michael Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González-López, Irene, Author.

Contributor:

González-López, Irene, editor.

Smith, Michael (Michael James), editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977.

Tanaka, Kinuyo.

Motion picture actors and actresses--Japan--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Japan--Biography.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Motion picture producers and directors--Japan--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Praised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, Tanaka Kinuyo's career spanned the industrial development of cinema - from silent to sound, monochrome to colour. Alongside featuring in films by Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse and Kurosawa, Tanaka was also the only Japanese woman filmmaker between 1953 and 1962, and her films tackled distinctly feminine topics such as prostitution and breast cancer. Her career overlapped with a transformative period in Japanese history, and this close analysis of her fascinating life and work offers new perspectives, subjectivities and modes of analysis for the classical era of Japanese cinema.

Contents:

Intro

Figures

Notes on the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface: Light and Shadows in the Life of Tanaka Kinuyo

Introduction: Onna Monogatari

Chapter 1 Dancer, Doctor, Maiden, Mother: Tanaka Kinuyo's Early Star Image

Chapter 2 Meetings and Partings: How Tanaka's Films End

Chapter 3 Tanaka and Mizoguchi: Politics and Rebellion in the Early Post-war Era

Chapter 4 The First Female Gaze at Post-war Japanese Women: Tanaka Kinuyo, Film Director

Chapter 5 Kinuyo and Sumie: When Women Write and Direct

Chapter 6 Female Authorship, Subjectivity and Colonial Memory in Tanaka Kinuyo's The Wandering Princess (1960)

Chapter 7 Panpan Girls, Lesbians and Post-war Women's Communities: Girls of Dark (1961) as Women's Cinema

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4744-3178-X

1-4744-4463-6

1-4744-0971-7

1-4744-0970-9

OCLC:

1063971873