Word and image in Japanese cinema /

Word and Image in Japanese Cinema examines the complex relationship between the temporal order of linguistic narrative and the spatiality of visual spectacle, a dynamic that has played an important role in much of Japanese film. The tension between the controlling order of words and the liberating f...

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Other Authors: Washburn, Dennis C. 1954- (Editor), Cavanaugh, Carole (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: outside views of the Japanese film / Donald Richie
  • Introduction / Carole Cavanaugh and Dennis Washburn
  • The word before the image: criticism, the screenplay, and the regulation of meaning in prewar Japanese film culture / Aaron Gerow
  • The cinematic art of Higuchi Ichiyô's Takekurabe (Comparing Heights, 1895-1896) / Janet A. Walker
  • Once more and Gosho's romanticism in the early occupation period / Arthur Nolletti, Jr
  • The taunt of the gods: reflections on Woman in the dunes / Linda C. Ehrlich and Antonio Santos
  • Adapting The Makioka sisters / Kathe Geist
  • In the show house of modernity: exhaustive listing in Itami Jûzô's Tanpopo / Charles Shirô Inouye
  • Where's mama? The sobbing Yakuza of Hasegawa Shin / Alan Tansman
  • Saving the children: films by the most "casual" of directors, Shimizu Hiroshi / Keiko I. McDonald
  • Ishihara Yûjirô: youth, celebrity, and the male body in late-1950s Japan / Michael Raine
  • Otoko wa tsurai yo: nostalgia or parodic realism? / Richard Torrance
  • A working ideology for Hiroshima: Imamura Shôhei's Black rain / Carole Cavanaugh
  • Piss and run: or how Ozu does a number on SCAP / Edward Fowler
  • In the realm of the censors: cultural boundaries and the poetics of the forbidden / Leger Grindon
  • The arrest of time: the mythic transgressions of Vengeance is mine / Dennis Washburn
  • The frenzy of metamorphosis: the body in Japanese pornographic animation / Susan J. Napier.