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Cinema in Context
Keiko I. McDonald
ISBN: 9780824829391
Format: Hardback
Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press
Edition: illustrated edition
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In her introduction, Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to Japanese film analysis. "Readings" of films available on DVD with English subtitles put theory into practice as she considers a wide range of work, from familiar classics by Ozu and Kurosawa to the films of a younger generation of directors.
Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessary tools to construct a deeper understanding of some of the most critically acclaimed and thoroughly entertaining films ever made. In her introduction, Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to film analysis. Sixteen "readings" of films currently available on DVD with English subtitles put theory into practice as she considers a wide range of work, from familiar classics by Ozu and Kurosawa to the films of a younger generation of directors.
| ISBN | 0824829395 | | Pages | 312 | | ISBN13 | 9780824829391
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | University of Hawai'i Press | | Weight (grammes) | 794 | | Imprint | University of Hawai'i Press | | Published in | Honolulu, HI | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 2006 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | 2005013946 | | Spine width (mm) | 24 | | DEWEY | 791.43750952 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| 1 | | Synergy of theme, style, and dialogue : Kenji Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion (1936) | | 17 | | 2 | | Dream, song, and symbol : Akira Kurosawa's Drunken angel (1948) | | 33 | | 3 | | The Meiji novel for the screen : Shiro Toyoda's The mistress (1954) | | 49 | | 4 | | Period film par excellence : Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy (1954-1956) | | 66 | | 5 | | Simple means for complex ends : Yasujiro Ozu's Floating weeds (1959) | | 93 | | 6 | | Eros, politics, and folk religion : Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba (1963) | | 108 | | 7 | | The age-old paradox of innocence and experience : Kohei Oguri's Muddy river (1981) | | 122 | | 8 | | Satire on the family and education in postwar Japan : Yoshimitsu Morita's The family game (1983) | | 136 | | 9 | | Defeat revisited : Masahiro Shinoda's MacArthur's Children (1984) | | 152 | | 10 | | Satire on contemporary Japan : Juzo Itami's A taxing woman (1987) | | 165 | | 11 | | Animation seminal and influential : Hayao Miyazaki's My neighbor Totoro (1988) | | 176 | | 12 | | Cultural responses to simplicity : Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo (1993) | | 187 | | 13 | | The danger and allure of phantom light : Hirokazu Koreeda's Maboroshi (1995) | | 198 | | 14 | | Stressed-out nineties youth in laid-back sixties dress : Takeshi Kitano's Kids return (1995) | | 219 | | 15 | | Bittersweet childhood : Yoichi Higashi's Village of dreams (1996) | | 232 | | 16 | | A woman director's approach to the country family : Naomi Kawase's Suzaku (1997) | | 244 |
"Here is a much needed book, an expert's explication of the Japaneseness of the Japanese film, and an adroit teaching on how to read and to savor the ensuing experience." - Donald Richie"  Be the first to write a customer review
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