Word and Image in Japanese Cinema

by Edited by Dennis Washburn , Carole Cavanaugh

• ISBN13: 9780521777414
• ISBN10: 0521777410
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• 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

Introduction

Foreword: Outside views of the Japanese film

Wording the Image/Imaging the Word

The word before the image: criticism, the screenplay, and the regulation of meaning in prewar Japanese film culture

The cinematic art of Higuchi Ichiyo's 'Takekurabe' (comparing heights, 1895-96)

Once More and Gosho's Romanticism in the early occupation period

The taunt of the Gods: reflections on Woman in the Dunes

Adapting The Makioka Sisters

In the show house of modernity: exhaustive listing in Itami Juzo's

Reflections of Identity

Where's mama?: the sobbing Yakuza of Hasegawa

Saving the children: films by that most 'casual' of directors

Ishihara Yujiro: youth, celebrity, and the male body in late 1950s Japanese culture

Otoko wa tsurai yo: nostalgia or parodic realism?

A working ideology for Hiroshima: Imamura Shohei's Black

Piss and run: or how Ozu does a number on SCAP

In the realm of the censors: cultural boundaries and the poetics of the forbidden

The arrest of time: the sacred transgressions of Vengeance Is Mine

No, not yet! Cinema and personal survival in Kurosawa's recent work

The frenzy of metamorphosis: the body in Japanese pornographic animation

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