Woojeong Joo

Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro (eBook, ePUB)

Histories of the Everyday

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked during a period of immense turbulence for Japan and its population. This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression, war and economic resurgence. Firmly situating him within the context of the Japanese film industry, Woojeong Joo examines Ozu's work as a studio director and his relation to sound cinema, and looks in-depth at his wartime experiences and his adaptation to postwar Japanese society. Drawing on Japanese materials not previously examined in western scholarship, this is a groundbreaking new study of a master of cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474424547
• Artikelnr.: 50401834

Autorenporträt

Woojeong Joo received his PhD degree from University of Warwick. He worked at University of East Anglia as a postdoctoral research assistant for AHRC funded project, 'Manga to Movies', and is currently teaching in Japan-in-Asia Cultural Studies Program at Nagoya University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
INTRODUCTION: Ozu, History, and the Everyday
CHAPTER 1
EARLY OZU: Shoshimin Film and Everyday Realism
CHAPTER 2
OZU IN TRANSITION: Coming of Sound and Family Melodrama
CHAPTER 3
WARTIME OZU: In between Bourgeois Drama and National Policy Film
CHAPTER 4
OZU AND POSTWAR: Ozu's Occupation era films and Tokyo Regained
CHAPTER 5
LATE OZU: New Generation and New Salaryman Film
Conclusion
Select Filmography
Select Bibliography
Notes