<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Stefan,<div><br></div><div>In addition to "À la Découverte de Yasuzô Masumura" that appeared in the journal "Cinema", Rosenbaum also published this:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">"Enlightened Madness." <span style="text-decoration: underline">Film Comment</span> 38.5 (2002): 32, 35-39.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div></div><div>However, it is a much shorter text, substantially different. I would recommend a more recent essay by Michael Raine, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Modernization without modernity: Masumura Yasuzô's Giants and toys (1958)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">" that appears in this book:</span></span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">Phillips, Alastair, and Julian Stringer. <span style="text-decoration: underline">Japanese Cinema : Texts and Contexts</span>. London ; New York: Routledge, 2007.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">"Texts and Contexts" is a fine collection, with a number of other essays that might be of interest to you.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></div><div><div>In English, probably the most extensive treatments can be found in three dissertations by Yoshimoto, Raine, and myself. You can order them from Proquest.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Roberts, Mark Downing. "Masumura Yasuzô and the Cinema of Social Consciousness." Thesis (Ph D in Rhetoric). University of California, Berkeley, 2007.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Raine, Michael John. "Youth, Body, and Subjectivity in the Japanese Cinema, 1955-1960." The University of Iowa, 2002.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. "Logic of Sentiment: The Postwar Japanese Cinema and Questions of Modernity (Melodrama, Sentimentality, Kurosawa Akira, Masumura Yasuzo, Ozu Yasujiro, Oshima Nagisa)." PhD. U.C. San Diego, 1993.</div> <br></div><div>These dissertations are, of course, research in progress, but they contain longer analyses of specific films. I believe Michael is working on a book, as am I.</div><div><br></div><div>There are also some older works in French and Italian, most already cited in this thread. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">The complete reference for the essay by Le Pape and Tessier is:</span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><div>Le Pape, Jean-Paul, and Max Tessier. "Yasuro Masumura et les Modernistes du 'Taiyozoku'." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Le Cinema Japonais Au Present: 1959-1979</span>. Paris: Lherminier, 1980.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>In Italian, there is also this, though I have not read it:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Miccich, Lino. "Da Masumura a Oshima." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Il Nuovo Cinema Degli Anni '60</span>. Roma: ERI, 1972.</div><div><br></div></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div>M. Roberts</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>