The Cinema of Naruse Mikio

by Russell, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780822342908
• ISBN10: 0822342901
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

""The Cinema of Naruse Mikio" presents not only a deft and subtle run-through of the world of an important auteur, but also a virtual encapsulation of the intellectual history of Japanese cinema during its most important period, the 1930s-60s. Catherine Russell contextualizes Naruse in the commercial situation in which he worked and in the historical, social, political, and intellectual project of mid-twentieth-century Japan. I came away firmly believing that Naruse was more attuned to how modernity was leaving its indelible marks on Japanese women than any other director of classical Japanese cinema. For students of feminist film criticism, Russell's book is an absolute must."--David Desser, author of "Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema"

Author Biography

Catherine Russell is a professor of film studies at Concordia University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: The Auteur as Salaryman

The Silent Films: Women in the City, 1930-1934

Naruse as P.C.L.: Toward a Japanese Classical Cinema, 1935-1937

Not a Monumental Cinema: Wartime Vernacular, 1938-1945

The Occupation Years: Cinema, Democracy, and Japanese Kitsch, 1945-1952

The Japanese Woman's Film of the 1950s, 1952-1958

Naruse in the 1960s: Stranded in Modernity, 1958-1967

Conclusion

Notes

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

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