[KineJapan] Hasumi X Barthes

[Mathieu Capel]

Actually, this interview is not very well known in France as well (if not
totally overlooked), hidden in Barthes' Complete Works edition. This is
unfortunate, I'd say, because it sheds an interesting light on Barthes'
premise as "western civilization sickness" (what he seems to share with
Noel Burch). See page 308 here, "I understood right away that the Japanese
wouldn't recognize themselves in it', etc. : such a sentence is actually
crucial, among others here... And can explain the misunderstanding between
French critics and Japanese filmmakers around that time, for Barthes was
such a huge influence for, say, Cahiers du Cinéma back then.

Mathieu Capel
Paris

2016-01-09 3:06 GMT+01:00 Cook, Ryan M. <ryan.cook at emory.edu>:

>
> This is a fascinating interview, and sheds some light on Hasumi's use of
> terms from Barthes in other contexts.  It's also interesting to see
> Barthes' reluctance to analyze Flaubert (though the comments he makes here
> are very interesting).  I noticed the last time I was in Kinokuniya that
> Hasumi's career-long study of Flaubert, extending back to his doctoral
> dissertation, has finally come out in an enormous volume.
>
>
> Somewhere in my files I have a special issue, maybe of Umi, on Barthes
> with which Hasumi was heavily involved, if I recall.  I wonder if that
> issue is where this interview was published.  The translation doesn't give
> the full citation.
>
>
>
> Ryan Cook
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>
> New translation (from the French, it seems) of a fascinating interview of
> Barthes by Hasumi shortly after the publication of Empire of Signs.
> November 2015 issue of Cultural Politics.
>
> http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/11/3/301.full.pdf
>
> Markus
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