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Reading a Japanese film : cinema in context / Keiko I. McDonald
| Material Type | Books |
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| Publisher | Honolulu : University of Hawai`i Press |
| Year | c2006 |
| Size | ix, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
| Vol | : hardcover ; ISBN:0824829395 ; XISBN:9780824829391 : pbk ; ISBN:082482993X ; XISBN:9780824829933 |
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| Language | English |
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| Contents | Synergy of theme, style, and dialogue : Kenji Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion (1936) Dream, song, and symbol : Akira Kurosawa's Drunken angel (1948) A Meiji novel for the screen : Shirō Toyoda's The mistress (1954) Period film par excellence : Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy (1954-1956) Simple means for complex ends : Yasujirō Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959) Eros, politics, and folk religion : Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba (1963) The age-old paradox of innocence and experience : Kōhei Oguri's Muddy river (1981) Satire on the family and education in postwar Japan : Yoshimitsu Morita's The family game (1983) Defeat revisited : Masahiro Shinoda's MacArthur's children (1984) Satire on contemporary Japan : Jūzō Itami's A taxing woman (1987) Animation seminal and influential : Hayao Miyazaki's My neighbor Totoro (1988) Cultural responses to simplicity : Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo (1993) The danger and allure of phantom light : Hirokazu Koreeda's Mabaroshi (1995) Stressed-out nineties youth in laid-back sixties dress : Takeshi Kitano's Kids return (1995) Bittersweet childhood : Yōichi Higashi's Village of dreams (1996) A woman director's approach to the country family : Naomi Kawase's Suzaku (1997) |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index |
| Authors | McDonald, Keiko Iwai, 1940- |
| Subjects | LCSH:Motion pictures -- Japan All Subject Search |
| Classification | LCC:PN1993.5.J3 DC22:791.43/75/0952 TDC:999 |
| ID | LB00121131 |
| ISBN | 0824829395 |
| NCID | BA74436312 |