Word and Image in Japanese Cinema
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780511570292 |
| Open Library | OL16925017W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 2000 - 2000 |
| Language | EN |
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 fragmentation of images has been an important force that has shaped modern culture in Japan and that has also determined the evolution of its cinema. In exploring the rift between word and image, the essays in this volume clarify the cultural imperatives that Japanese cinema reflects, as well as the ways in which the dialectic of word and image has informed the understanding and critical reception of Japanese cinema in the West
Ishihara Yûjirô: Youth, Celebrity, and the Male Body in late-1950s Japan
To borrow a line from Marlene Dietrich (Touch of Evil, 1957), Ishihara Yûjirô was “some kind of a man.” Unlike Marlene, I think it does “matter what we say about people”: the discourse on Yûjirô's celebrity speaks to us indirectly about the history of youth and masculinity in postwar Japan. In this essay I look at the early career of Ishihara Yûjirô as symptomatic of the social and aesthetic conditions of contemporary Japanese mass culture. I ven…
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 fragmentation of images has been an important force that has shaped modern culture in Japan and that has also determined the evolution of its cinema. I…
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Ishihara Yûjirô: Youth, Celebrity, and the Male Body in late-1950s Japan
To borrow a line from Marlene Dietrich (Touch of Evil, 1957), Ishihara Yûjirô was “some kind of a man.” Unlike Marlene, I think it does “matter what we say about people”: the discourse on Yûjirô's celebrity speaks to us indirectly about the history of youth and masculinity in postwar Japan. In this essay I look at the early career of Ishihara Yûjirô as symptomatic of the social and aesthetic conditions of contemporary Japanese mass culture. I ven…
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 fragmentation of images has been an important force that has shaped modern culture in Japan and that has also determined the evolution of its cinema. I…