New Book: Reading a Japanese Film
Mark Nornes
amnornes
Fri Jan 20 12:00:52 EST 2006
Keiko McDonald has a new book out:
Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context.
Hawaii UP, 2006.
The book is similar to her other recent books, 16 careful close
textual analyses. From the preface: "this work is intended to address
the basic question with which I have been concerned as a teacher and
scholar for more than two decades: How does a person from the
Japanese tradition show Western viewers, primarily general audiences,
how to see a Japanese film?" As usual, the analyses are engaging and
in-depth, especially worth a gander if you are about to teach one of
the films. They selection is all postwar except for Sisters of Gion,
and all canonical works. This one is, thankfully, on paper.
Markus
Author:
McDonald, Keiko I.
Title:
Reading a Japanese film : cinema in context / Keiko I. McDonald.
Description:
ix, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Published:
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2006.
ISBN:
9780824829391 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824829395 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780824829933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
082482993X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Contents:
Synergy of theme, style, and dialogue : Mizoguchi's Sisters of the
Gion (1936) -- More about dream, song, and symbol : Kurosawa's The
drunken angel (1948) -- A Meiji novel for the screen : Toyoda's The
mistress (1954) -- Period film par excellence : Inagaki's samurai
trilogy (Musashi Miyamoto, 1954-56) -- Master of simplicity moving
hearts to pity : Ozu's Drifting weeds (1959) -- Eros, politics, and
folk religion : Shindo's Onibaba (1963) -- The age-old paradox of
innocence and experience : Oguri's Muddy river (1981) -- Satire on
the family and education in postwar Japan : Morita's The family game
(1983) -- Defeat revisited : Shinoda's MacArthur's children (1984) --
Satire on contemporary Japan : Itami's A taxing woman (1987) --
Seminal animation film : Miyazaki's My neighbor Totoro (1988) --
Cultural responses to simplicity : Kurosawa's Madadayo (1993) -- The
danger and allure of phantom light : Koreeda's Mabaroshi (1995) --
Stressed-out nineties youth in laid-back sixties dress : Kitano's
Kids return (1995) -- Bitter sweet childhood : Yoichi Higashi's
Village of dreams (1996) -- A woman director's approach to the
country family : Kawase's Suzaku (1997).
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index.
Subject(s):
Motion pictures Japan.
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