Representations of intoxication

[Christine Marran]

I too LOVE Matango!  A must see.
Christine
> Hello Christiane,
>
> Nice to meet you again too.
> There's probably quite a lot out there if I think about it, but for 
> the one that immediately springs to mind is Matango: Fungus of Terror, 
> also known as Attack of the Mushroom People. You haven't lived until 
> you've seen this film!
> For now, you can content yourself with the trailer: 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyRYjJoZfc
>
> best
>
> Jasper Sharp
>
> Midnight Eye www.midnighteye.com
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:35:26 +0200
> From: christiane86 at freenet.de
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: AW: Self introduction + Representations of intoxication
>
> Hello again,
>  
> thanks for your thoughts Roger. (Always nice to 'meet' you again.)
>  
> I'm afraid I should have been more precise when asking you about 
> intoxication. Sorry about that. I'm mainly interested in the 
> representation of the altered state of consciousness because of 
> intoxication (by drugs, alcohol or any invented substance) or 
> the cinematic excess, for example, when intoxication is used to 
> reflect on the medium's materiality ... That's why I'm interested in 
> scenes that entangle exterior and interior in some way and go beyond 
> showing someone who is drunk or high.
>  
>  
> Best regards,
> Christiane   
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> *Von:* owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
> [mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] *Im Auftrag von 
> *Roger Macy
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009 10:04
> *An:* KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> *Betreff:* Re: Self introduction + Representations of intoxication
>
> Hi, Christiane,
> Narrow world again!
> I'm sure they'll be more than a few examples of intoxication, but 
> here's what comes to mind immediately:-
> Naruse's Bangiku, 1954;
> The Nakadai character in Harada's Jubaku, 1999;
> They're defintely high on something in Matsumoto's Barano s?retsu, 1969
> Ichikawa brings on the drunks, but he makes quite a point of conveying 
> K?da Rohan as a drinker in Ot?to;
> Imamura also, but there's a definite intoxiction in ?janaika;
> Kawamoto's Hana-ori, 1968;
> Kurosawa's Yoidore tenshi, 1949;
> Ogawa pro's Dokkoi!- Ningen bushi -kotobuki, 1975 also has a negative 
> take;
> Uchida's Koi ya Koi Nasuna Koi, 1962 is brilliant on the intoxication 
> of love (but has anyone ever done it without tragedy?);
> and two in your Nippon Connection, last year got legless:
> Hirayama's Shaberedomo, shaberedomo, 2007
> and at last, for better or worse, an intoxicated woman in Kumakiri's 
> Non-ko, 2008
> best,
> Roger
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>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Christiane Borchert <mailto:christiane86 at freenet.de>
>     *To:* KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>     <mailto:KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:09 PM
>     *Subject:* Self introduction + Representations of intoxication
>
>     Hello everyone,
>      
>     after I have been on this mailing list incognito for quite some
>     time, I think it's time for me to finally introduce myself:  
>      
>     Name: Christiane Borchert
>     Institutional affiliation or job: Programmer for film and cultural
>     sections (Nippon Connection. Japanese Film Festival, Frankfurt am
>     Main); research assistant (Department of Film Studies, Johannes
>     Gutenberg-University, Mainz)
>     City and country: Frankfurt am Main/ Mainz, Germany
>      
>     Research projects or publications: Master's thesis on the
>     dissolution of boundaries in the Boys' Love phenomenon (at an
>     early stage)  
>     Interests with regard to Japanese film and moving image
>     media: Japanese film and ~ popular culture, ~ Queer Studies, ~
>     corporeality, ~ transnational flows, ~ media convergence, ~
>     trauma, film festival research and otaku culture
>      
>      
>     First of all, thank you all for your insightful discussions, your
>     notes on events, publications and films on this list! Your
>     contributions have been pretty inspiring and motivating for
>     me. Hence, I wondered whether you could inspire me once again:   
>      
>     At present I am working on a paper and am looking for films
>     containing representations of intoxication (or/ and drunkenness).
>     I am especially interested in sequences in which external and
>     internal perspectives are entangled. The only examples that I know
>     are KAKUTO by ISEYA Yusuke and DAYDREAM by TAKECHI Tetsuji. I
>     would really appreciate if you could help me out with some further
>     examples. 
>      
>      
>     Best regards and many thanks in advance,
>      
>     Christiane 
>     (ch <mailto:christiane86 at freenet.de>ristiane86 at freenet.de)     
>
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Christine L. Marran
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota