| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) : illustrations |
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Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film |
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Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Lindsay Coleman, David Desser -- Making of an auteur : the early films (1958-1959) / Jennifer Coates -- Confronting America : pigs and battleships and the politics of US bases in postwar Japan / Hiroshi Kitamura -- Insect men and women : gender, conflict and problematic modernity in Intentions of Murder / Adam Bingham -- Hidden in plain sight : the false leads and true mysteries of Vengeance Is Mine / John Berra -- Eel : trauma cinema / David Desser -- Insect Woman, or : the female art of failure / Michael Raine -- Obscene in the everyday : The Pornographers / Lindsay Coleman -- Shohei Imamura's profound desire for Japan's cultural roots : critical approaches to Profound Desires of the Gods / Mats Karlsson -- "Products of Japan" : Karayuh-san, The Making of a Prostitute / Joan Mellen -- Female body as transgressor of national boundaries : The History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess / Bianca Briciu -- Better off being bacteria : adaptation and allegory in Dr. Akagi / Lauri Kitsnik -- Time out of joint : Shohei Imamura and the search for an "other" Japan / Bill Mihalopoulos -- Promotional discourses and the meanings of The Ballad of Narayama / Rayna Denison -- Boundary play : truth, fiction, and performance in A Man Vanishes / Diane Wei Lewis -- Why Not? Imamura, Nietzsche, and the untimely / David Deamer -- Kuroi Ame : an anthropology of suffering / Dolores P. Martinez -- Symbolic function of water / Timothy Iles |
| Summary |
"The only Japanese director to have won the Palme d'Or from Cannes more than once, and second only to Ozu Yasujiro in the number of times he has won the prestigious Kinema Jumpo Best One award, the late Imamura Shohei was one of Japan's leading and most controversial film directors. This book is one of the first to study all of Imamura's major films alongside his television and theatrical documentaries, focusing on his major themes and concerns. By giving shape to Imamura's career, the book positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of Japanese society."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Lindsay Coleman is an independent film producer, and is completing his PhD thesis at the University of Melbourne. Professor David Desser is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois and Dean of Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School of Film |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Imamura, Shōhei, 1926-2006 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Imamura, Shōhei, 1926-2006 fast |
| Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors -- Japan
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HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coleman, Lindsay, 1978- editor.
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Desser, David, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781474411820 |
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1474411827 |
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9781474411837 |
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1474411835 |
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1474411819 |
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9781474411813 |
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