Reading a Japanese film : cinema in context / Keiko I. McDonald.

Author/creator McDonald, Keiko I.
Format Book
Publication InfoHonolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2006.
Descriptionix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Motion pictures--Japan.

Contents Synergy of theme, style, and dialogue : Kenji Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion (1936) -- Dream, song, and symbol : Akira Kurosawa's Drunken angel (1948) -- A Meiji novel for the screen : Shirō Toyoda's The mistress (1954) -- Period film par excellence : Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy (1954-1956) -- Simple means for complex ends : Yasujirō Ozu's Floating weeds (1959) -- Eros, politics, and folk religion : Kaneto Shindō's Onibaba (1963) -- The age-old paradox of innocence and experience : Kōhei Oguri's Muddy river (1981) -- Satire on the family and education in postwar Japan : Yoshimitsu Morita's The family game (1983) -- Defeat revisited : Masahiro Shinoda's MacArthur's children (1984) -- Satire on contemporary Japan : Jūzō Itami's A taxing woman (1987) -- Animation seminal and influential : Hayao Miyazaki's My neighbor Totoro (1988) -- Cultural responses to simplicity : Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo (1993) -- The danger and allure of phantom light : Hirokazu Koreeda's Mabaroshi (1995) -- Stressed-out nineties youth in laid-back sixties dress : Takeshi Kitano's Kids return (1995) -- Bittersweet childhood : Yōichi Higashi's Village of dreams (1996) -- A woman director's approach to the country family : Naomi Kawase's Suzaku (1997).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index.
LCCN 2005013946
ISBN0824829395 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN082482993X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780824829391
ISBN9780824829933

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