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Author: Shiguéhiko Hasumi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2024-03-12
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0520396723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This pioneering translation brings Hasumi's landmark work to an English-speaking public for the first time, inviting a new readership to engage with this astutely observed, deeply moving meditation on the oeuvre of one of the giants of world cinema."--
Author: Paul Schrader
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2018-05-18
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0520969146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state by means of austere camerawork, acting devoid of self-consciousness, and editing that avoids editorial comment. This seminal text analyzes the film style of three great directors—Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, and Carl Dreyer—and posits a common dramatic language used by these artists from divergent cultures. The new edition updates Schrader’s theoretical framework and extends his theory to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia), Béla Tarr (Hungary), Theo Angelopoulos (Greece), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), among others. This key work by one of our most searching directors and writers is widely cited and used in film and art classes. With evocative prose and nimble associations, Schrader consistently urges readers and viewers alike to keep exploring the world of the art film.
Author: David Desser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-04-13
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780521484350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOzu's Tokyo Story is generally regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Universal in its appeal, it is also considered to be 'particularly Japanese'. Exploring its universality and cultural specificity, this collection of specially commissioned essays demonstrates the multiple planes on which the film may be appreciated. The introduction outlines Ozu's career as both a contract director of a major studio and as a singular figure in Japanese film history, and also analyses the director's cinematic style, particularly his narrative strategies and spatial compositions. Other essays situate Ozu's cinema in its relationship to Hollywood film-making: his relationship to aspects of Japanese tradition, situating the film within artistic modes, religious systems and beliefs, and socio-cultural and familial formations. Also included is an analysis of how Ozu has been misunderstood in Western criticism.
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1977-03-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780520032774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.
Author: Shiguéhiko Hasumi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2024-03-12
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0520396731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1983, Shiguéhiko Hasumi's Directed by Yasujirō Ozu has become one of the most influential books on cinema written in Japanese. This pioneering translation brings Hasumi's landmark work to an English-speaking public for the first time, inviting a new readership to engage with this astutely observed, deeply moving meditation on the oeuvre of one of the giants of world cinema. Complemented by a critical introduction from acclaimed film scholar Aaron Gerow and rendered fluidly in Ryan Cook's agile translation, this volume will grace the shelves of cinephiles for many years to come.
Author: Woojeong Joo
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-05-18
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0748696334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA re-interpretation of the master of Japanese cinema from a socio-historical perspectiveOne 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 Ozus career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozus 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 Ozus work as a studio director and his relation to sound cinema, and looks in-depth at his wartime experiences and his adaptation to post-war Japanese society. Drawing on Japanese materials not previously examined in western scholarship, this is a ground-breaking new study of a master of cinema.Case studies include:Ozus shAshimin films Ozus wartime films, including the script of The Flavour of Green Tea over RicePostwar script of The Moon Has RisenTokyo Story
Author: Yoshishige Yoshida
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA luminous exploration of one filmmaker's work by another, an artist's personal journey, a manifesto
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1977-03-15
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0520032772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780811210478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781230480145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlease note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 36. Chapters: An Autumn Afternoon, An Inn in Tokyo, A Hen in the Wind, A Mother Should be Loved, A Story of Floating Weeds, Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, Days of Youth, Dragnet Girl, Early Spring, Early Summer, Equinox Flower, Good Morning (film), I Was Born, But..., Late Autumn (1960 film), Late Spring, Passing Fancy, Sword of Penitence, The End of Summer, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, The Only Son (1936 film), The Record of a Tenement Gentleman, Tokyo Chorus, Tokyo Story, Tokyo Twilight, What Did the Lady Forget?. Excerpt: Late Spring Banshun) is a 1949 Japanese drama film, directed by Yasujir Ozu and produced by the Shochiku studio. It is based on the short novel Father and Daughter (Chichi to musume) by the 20th century novelist and critic Kazuo Hirotsu, and was adapted for the screen by Ozu and his frequent collaborator, screenwriter Kogo Noda. The film was written and shot during the Allied Powers' Occupation of Japan and was subject to the Occupation's official censorship requirements. It stars Chishu Ryu, a performer featured in almost all of the director's films, and Setsuko Hara, making her first of six appearances in Ozu's cinema. It is the first installment of Ozu's so-called "Noriko trilogy"-the others are Early Summer (Bakushu, 1951) and Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari, 1953)-in each of which Hara portrays a young woman named Noriko, though the three Norikos are completely distinct and unrelated characters, linked primarily by their status as single women in postwar Japan. Late Spring belongs to the type of Japanese film known as shomingeki, a genre that deals with the ordinary daily lives of working class and middle class people of modern times. The film is frequently regarded as the first in the director's final creative period, "the major prototype...
