Title Negative, nonsensical, and non-conformist : the films of Suzuki Seijun / Peter A. Yacavone

Published Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (402 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits Series Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; number 99 Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 99. Summary In the late 1950s, Suzuki Seijun was an unknown, anxious low-ranking film director churning out so-called program pictures for Japan's most successful movie studio, Nikkatsu. In the early 1960s, he met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild exploitation films featuring prostitutes and teenage rebels. In this book, Peter A. Yacavone argues that Suzuki became an unlikely cinematic rebel and, with hindsight, one of the most important voices in the global cinema of the 1960s. Working from within the studio system, Suzuki almost single-handedly rejected the restrictive filmmaking norms of the postwar period and expanded the form and language of popular cinema. This artistic rebellion proved costly when Suzuki was fired in 1967 and virtually blacklisted by the studios, but Suzuki returned triumphantly to the scene of world cinema in the 1980s and 1990s with a series of critically celebrated, avant-garde tales of the supernatural and the uncanny. This book provides a well-informed, philosophically oriented analysis of Suzuki's 49 feature films Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-396) and index Notes This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 Description based on information from the publisher Subject Suzuki, Seijun, 1923-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Suzuki, Seijun, 1923-2017 fast Subject Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha fast Subject Exploitation films -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Horror films -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Experimental films -- Japan -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Experimental films Exploitation films Horror films Japan Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher. ISBN 0472903470 9780472903474

Other Titles Films of Suzuki Seijun

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