Word and Image in Japanese Cinema

by Edited by Dennis Washburn , Carole Cavanaugh

• ISBN13: 9780521771825
• ISBN10: 052177182X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Contributors	ix
Foreword: Outside Views of the Japanese Film	xiii
Donald Richie
Introduction	xix
Carole Cavanaugh
Dennis Washburn
PART ONE. WORDING THE IMAGE/IMAGING THE WORD
The Word before the Image: Criticism, the Screenplay, and the Regulation of Meaning in Prewar Japanese Film Culture	3	(33)
Aaron Gerow
The Cinematic Art of Higuchi Ichiyo's Takekurabe (Comparing Heights, 1895-1896)	36	(23)
Janet A. Walker
Once More and Gosho's Romanticism in the Early Occupation Period	59	(30)
Arthur Nolletti, Jr.
The Taunt of the Gods: Reflections on Woman In The Dunes	89	(19)
Linda C. Ehrlich
Antonio Santos
Adapting The Makioka Sisters	108	(18)
Kathe Geist
In the Show House of Modernity: Exhaustive Listing in Itami Juzo's Tanpopo	126	(23)
Charles Shiro Inouye
PART TWO. REFLECTIONS OF IDENTITY
Where's Mama? The Sobbing Yakuza of Hasegawa Shin	149	(25)
Alan Tansman
Saving the Children: Films by the Most ``Casual'' of Directors, Shimizu Hiroshi	174	(28)
Keiko I. McDonald
Ishihara Yujiro: Youth, Celebrity, and the Male Body in late-1950s Japan	202	(24)
Michael Raine
Otoko wa tsurai yo: Nostalgia or Parodic Realism?	226	(24)
Richard Torrance
A Working Ideology for Hiroshima: Imamura Shohei's Black Rain	250	(23)
Carole Cavanaugh
PART THREE. OUTSIDE THE FRAME OF CULTURE
Piss and Run: Or How Ozu Does a Number of SCAP	273	(20)
Edward Fowler
In the Realm of the Censors: Cultural Boundaries and the Poetics of the Forbidden	293	(25)
Leger Grindon
The Arrest of Time: The Mythic Transgressions of Vengeance Is Mine	318	(24)
Dennis Washburn
The Frenzy of Metamorphosis: The Body in Japanese Pornographic Animation	342	(25)
Susan J. Napier
Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books in English	367	(6)
Index	373