Bordwell Ozu reprint

[Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano]

Thanks for the advise MEK. I'll do that.
Best,
Lorenzo.


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De: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu [mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] En nombre de Michael E Kerpan, Jr.
Enviado el: martes, 09 de octubre de 2007 1:18
Para: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Asunto: Re: Bordwell Ozu reprint

Prof Bordwell is going to set up an online errata list -- to go with the 
online book.  so why don't you send this bit of information to him for that 
list?

;~}

MEK

On Monday 08 October 2007 17:39, Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano wrote:
> I totally agree with almost all you say Markus, but almost... At least, in
> what have relation with my research in Ozu, Banshun, Bordwell has not
> corrected the mistake he makes about the Noh play in the middle of the
> film: it is Kakitsubata and not the one he says it is.
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> Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
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> Dpto. Comunicaci?n Audiovisual I
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> Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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> De: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> [mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] En nombre de
> amnornes at umich.edu
> Enviado el: lunes, 08 de octubre de 2007 5:45
> Para: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Asunto: Re: Bordwell Ozu reprint
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> Michael and David both beat me to this. I guess I better write
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> something, but swiftly. The next film is starting in minutes.
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> I have to say, Bordwell's Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema is one of the
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> best books on a single director i can think of. I sense that something
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> clicked with David. Aside from the talents of both director and author,
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> I suspect David found a strange and strong affinity with Ozu. Both love
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> intricasy. Finding it in the world, in cinema, and building it into
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> their respective works. There is great power in these close textual
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> analyses. Many people had written on the major features of Ozu's style
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> at the time of his writing. However, no one had unpacked the films with
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> such care. I remained stunned at some of the analyses, the way they
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> uncover the spectacular and peculiar logic built into his films. Aside
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> from this, it is also one of best introductions to the potentials of
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> Bordwell's historical poetics. I have found many of the criticisms of
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> the book unconvincing, and often informed mostly by unreasonable
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> expectations for what someone like Bordwell can (or should) do.
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> So I:m proud that I have had a hand in keeping the book alive. As David
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> explains in his new introduction, which is definitely worth reading,
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> the book went out of print and no press was interested in reviving a
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> tome with some 500 images. We were, tho. Unfortunately, some
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> entrepeneurial netizen discovered the draft site and it went public
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> before we were ready. David had yet to write his introduction. And
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> there were ongoing discussions about what to do about the photographs.
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> This was Princeton's first book produced digitally, in pay layout
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> software. This helps explain why the images are so grainy and hard to
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> read. As you probably know, one impressive and precious aspect of his
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> publications are the images----frames snapped in an analog fashion and
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> not grabbed digitally. His original photos were of very high quality,
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> but you'd never know it from the book.
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> So the new UM Center for Japanese Studies electronic reprint has
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> replaced all the images with high quality scans----David went the extra
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> mile and helped us with both the financing and actual scanning of these
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> materials and we are forever grateful for this help. We also added
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> color----why not? It's the internet and easy. On top of all of this, we
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> decided to  play with a new interface developed by the people in our
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> library (the same office that has been collaborating with Google for
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> all these years). You will find tabs for each frame blow-up to the side
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> of each page. If you click the tab, a window will open with a new
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> interface allowing you to study the image at various sizes. You can
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> also download it, or any page, or the entire book for that matter.
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> I'd like to thank David Bordwell for allowing us to republish his work
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> and offer the book for free. It makes it all the easier to return to,
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> search a key word, and also to assign to classes on Japanese cinema.
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> Enjoy!
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> Markus