shutai vs. shutaisei ?

[Mathieu Capel]

Dear Kinejapaners,

I was a little bit puzzled lately as reading an article written in 1959 by
Matsumoto Toshio, entitled "'Haisen' to 'sengo' no fuzai" (「敗戦」と「戦後」の不在 =
The absence of "defeat" and "postwar" ? What could be the proper translation
in english ?), what can be read at the end of his famous *Eizô no
hakken/Discovering images* (from p. 188 in the recent Seiryû edition).
Actually this text seems to me of prime significance to understand what were
the arguments of young cinematographers belonging to the
Oshima/Yoshida/Matsumoto generation against the former generation,
especially regarding the subject of victimization i.e. higaisha ishiki...

What puzzled me is the clear distinction Matsumoto begins with, between
"shutai" and "shutaisei", what one may translate, very carefully, to
"subject" and "subjectivity". Strictly and philosophically speaking, the
difference between shutai and shutaisei can easily be understood, I
assume... But the point here is that Matsumoto seems, one one hand, to put
forward "shutai", and on the other hand, to despise the expression of
"shutaisei"... And indeed that's a fact that in *Eizô no hakken* we always
read "shutai", and not 'shutaisei" - what put him aside from the likes of
Oshima and Yoshida, who use both terms.

Matsumoto actually refers to a former article, described as "a critic of
Hanamatsu" (花松批判), but no title, no further reference... Considering that
this last article is not published in *Eizô no hakken* (or did I miss it ?),
could someone tell me where I could find it, and what's its title ? Of
course, I'd be very grateful to anyone kind enough to explain what Matsumot
actually means with that "shutai"/'shutaisei" distinction.
I understand it as a way to step aside from all the shutaisei theories (Cf.
J. Victor Koschmann's *Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan)* that
flourished after the defeat, for Matsumoto's cinematographic theories about
"shutai" pretend to be some kind of idiosyncratic and in no way indebted to
any recent Japanese thinker (except for Nakai Masakazu, who he wrote about
in 1964 ?). But what were his arguments, reasons and motivations, that's
what I wouldn't know - except for some hints that one can find in this
"Absence of defeat and postwar" piece of writing...
Many thanks,

Mathieu Capel
Paris
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