A companion to Japanese cinema / edited by David Desser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desser, David, editor.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas.

Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Japan--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (763 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

"Here is the cliché, the received wisdom: Kurosawa Akira's Rashomon was the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. That it won the festival's grand prize seems in retrospect to be a given: it is one of the finest and most important films ever made, its influence incalculable. So, what was surprising? It was, after all, accepted for the competitive category and therefore should have had as much chance as any other of the 29 films in competition. True, it was up against some stiff competition, with films by well-known directors like George Cukor, Jean Renoir, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, and up-and-coming filmmakers like Elia Kazan and Robert Bresson. One-third of the films were English-language, postwar European cinema still recovering from the devastation of the war. The beginning of the notion of "surprise" winner comes with reportage by film historian Tino Balio who notes that it "slipped into the festival unheralded" by the festival director to make "the representation as wide as possible. Members of the jury knew nothing about the picture or the director." (Balio 2010: 118) But this brings up another issue: the "surprise" extended not just to the festival-goers who knew nothing about the film or its director, but to the Japanese themselves"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Kyoto : The "Hollywood of Japan" / Diane Lewis

The pure film movement and modern Japanese film style / Laura Lee

Shiraito redux : text, body, desire from Kyoka to Mizoguchi / Ayaoko Saito

The adventures of Uchida Tomu / Daisuke Miyao

Yoshimura Kozaburo and the working woman in the old capital / Alexander Jacoby

Calico-world in rainbow colors : the aesthetics of gender in 1950s Toei Jidaigeki / Junko Yamazaki

Silverscreen dreamboats and the polyvocal address / Earl Jackson

Mad, bad and beautiful : revisiting Kurosawa's women / Dolores Martinez

Biographies of loss : the cinematic melancholy of Kawase Naomi / Erin Schoneveld

Shaping the anime industry : second generation pioneers and the emergence of the studio system / Laura Montero-Plata and Marie Pruvost-Delaspre

Shapeshifting in anime : form and meaning / Richard J. Leskosky

Ainu in documentary films : promiscuous iconography and the absent image / Marcos P. Centeno-Martín

Modernity in film exhibition : the rise of modern movie theaters in Tokyo, 1920s-1930s / Chie Niita

Female stardom and national identity in postwar Japan / Jennifer Coates

Wild, sexy and funny : Toei does "pink" / Laura Treglia

Behind the voice that brought peace : the emperor as hero in The Emperor in August / Griseldis Kirsch

Queer time in summer vacation 1999 / Nina Cornyetz

Horror old and new : Nakata Hideo's Ringu (1998) between J-horror and Hibakusha cinema / Olga Solovieva

Youth, trauma, and contemporary Japanese cinema / Jay McRoy

'Female director' : discourses and practices in contemporary Japan / Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández and Irene González-López

The dying art of Japanese cinema / Kirsten Cather

Before media mix : the electric ecology / Zahlten, Alexander

Gosho and the gagman : scriptwriting at the time of the talkie crisis in 1930s Japan / Lauri Kitsnik

Inventing television through film : Japanese cinema and TV, 1953-1963 / Aaron Gerow

'Scope and the city : reframing a modern metropolis / Jasper Sharp

Bodies in motion : Japanese film of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics era between mass culture, media, and memory / Ryan Cook

Adaptation as Cinematic Translation : Murakami Haruki and Ichikawa Jun's Tony Takitani / Mika Ko

Blockbusters in Japan : hit film culture and the Rise of Fuji Television as commercial film studio / Rayna Denison

Hani Susumu, nouvelle vague in Japan and processive cinema / Takuya Tsunoda

The cultural turn in post-3.11 documentary : Kamanaka Hitomi's accented documentary / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781118955345

111895534X

9781118955352

1118955358

OCLC:

1269413807