Japanese Film and the Floating Mind

Cinematic Contemplations of Being

Justin Vicari (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2016
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6498-9 (ISBN)

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Japanese film is enduringly fascinating, challenging and rewarding. This book provides a cultural, historical and philosophical study of Japanese film, from the silent era to the present, focusing on its expansive consciousness. The author examines masterpieces by Yasujir? Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Nagisa Oshima and many other directors, discussing their influence on the Japanese culture of esoteric Zen Buddhism and relating them to recent neuroscientific theories of brain trauma.

Justin Vicari is an award-winning poet, essayist and film writer. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface: Japanese Film X

Introduction: Paradoxes of Perception: In a Ghostly Theater

Part One: Toward the Last Ontology

1. Moon in Water

2. The Broken Heart of Ontology

3. Anxieties of Change, Changing Anxieties

4. Extremisms

5. The Last Ontology

Part Two: The Floating World

6. Refugees of the Floating World

7. The Meanings of the Wound

Part Three: Emperor Worship

8. The Problem of Emperor Worship

9. Naruse: An Early and Enduring Critic of Emperor Worship

10. Ozu, After Surrender

11. “Just a memory”: The Figure of the Emperor in Postwar Melodrama

12. Three Films

Mizoguchi’s Women of the Night

Imamura’s Outlaw Matsuo Comes Home

Wakamatsu’s Caterpillar

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.09.2016
Zusatzinfo	34 photographs
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-4766-6498-6 / 1476664986
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6498-9 / 9781476664989
Zustand	Neuware