[KineJapan] kitano chapter in new book

[Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan]

Dear Kinejapan subscribers,

I'd like to inform you about a chapter on the cinema of Takeshi Kitano in a
book that just came out in May with Bloomsbury Press. The book is entitled *The
Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas*.

You may access the book online here:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bloomsbury.com_us_the-2Dgrace-2Dof-2Ddestruction-2D9781501303029_-23sthash.838PWiX9.dpuf&d=DQIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=Y6HPgNSnZW6f6YoyxNaSLcQ9B-JoU-Ynv4CuLozMAsU&s=RcQN_SocH-pBhlxaCN_GIBz7DYPthwWOS1PIw4Bsh6U&e= 

Paperback format will be available in 2017.

Chapter 4 on Kitano's cinema, Ethology of Death, discusses the films
*Sonatine*, *Fireworks*, *Dolls* and *Takeshis'*.

Here's a short abstract of the chapter:

The ethical-affective model of death found in Deleuze and Spinoza (one in
which extinction occurs as the body reaches the limit of its affects or
powers) serves as the basis for an examination of Takeshi Kitano's
affirmative cinema of violence and death. Kitano's cinema resists the
notion of death prevalent in the Western philosophical tradition, where
death stands as the transcendental horizon against which we measure life
and subjectivity. His films put in place processes of depersonalization and
experiences of death-in-life as a means to relativize the absolute
partition between life and death. Sonatine (1993), Fireworks (Hana-Bi,
1997), Dolls (2000) and Takeshis' (2005) surpass the codified destructive
impetus of the Japanese yakuza genre by staging abundant material
encounters between death and vitalism. These films exhibit a paradoxical
symmetry between the mind's creative processes and the dissolving processes
of death: they both involve subtractive operations that interrupt life as
habitually, stereotypically lived.

-- 
Elena Del Río
*Professor of Film Studies*
Department of English and Film Studies
University of Alberta
3-5 Humanities Centre
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E5
Canada
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