Peter Cowie

Japanese Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

A Personal Journey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors.

This is a passionate, personal journey through one of the world's greatest national cinemas, beginning with the classic directors who came to the fore in the postwar period and became legendary names on the art house circuit: Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Kobayashi, Naruse, and Oshima, among others. Japanese Cinema traces the common themes explored by these directors as well as the impact of important historical and cultural issues, including World War 2, the representation of women, and the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s.

Finally, Peter Cowie surveys the state of contemporary Japanese film and its greatest living practitioners, Hirokazu Kore-eda among them, as well as the international face of Japanese animation, Hayao Miyazaki. Cowie brings a lifetime's commitment to film to bear on the human relationships so well explored by these Japanese auteurs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611729566
• Artikelnr.: 62616228

Autorenporträt

PETER COWIE has spent his life in writing about cinema, and in particular about the prodigious talents that emerged during the 1950s and 1960s such as Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa. His more than thirty books include studies of the work of John Ford, Francis Ford Coppola, and the iconic actress Louise Brooks. He was international publisher of the trade paper, Variety, for more than twelve years, and he is also known for his numerous commentaries and video essays for the Criterion Collection in New York. Cowie has traveled throughout Japan on several occasions, and is an avid fan of its history, its literature, and its cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Akira Kurosawa and the Samurai World
2. Kenji Mizoguchi: The Need for Compassion
3. Women in the Floating World: Hiroshi Shimizu, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke
Kinoshita 4. Harmony and Disharmony in Yasujiro Ozu
5. Kon Ichikawa: The Art of Appearances
6. The Shadow of War
7 Nagisa Oshima and the Shock of the 1960s
8. Period of Transition: Juzo Itami, Naomi Kawase, Hirokazu Kore-eda
9. Hayao Miyazaki: The Animator as Auteur
Conclusion