The Cinematic Influence

Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan

Peter C. Pugsley, Dr. Ben McCann (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8293-2 (ISBN)

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Exploring the multiple aesthetic and cultural links between French and Japanese cinema, The Cinematic Influence is packed with vivid examples and case studies of films by Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Claire Denis, Naomi Kawase, Michel Gondry and many others. It illustrates the vast array of cinematic connections that mark a long history of mutual influence and reverence between filmmakers in France and Japan.

The book provides new insights into the ways that national cinemas resist Hollywood to maintain and strengthen their own cultural practices and how these national cinemas perform the task of informing and enlightening other cultures about what it means to be French or Japanese. This book also deepens our understandings of film's role as a viable cultural and economic player in individual nations. Importantly, the reader will see that film operates as a form of cultural exchange between France and Japan, and more broadly, Europe and Asia. This is the first major book to investigate the crossover between these two diverse national cinemas by tracking their history of shared narrative and stylistic techniques.

Peter C. Pugsley is Associate Professor in Media/Film Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research and teaching focus on Asian film and screenwriting. Ben McCann is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His most recent book is L’Auberge espagnole: European Youth on Film (2018).

Acknowledgements
List of figures
Preface

Introduction
Two cinematic ecosystems: France and Japan
History
Reception
Chapter structure

PART A: History and Style

1. Historicising French and Japanese cinemas
Before the nouvelle vague…and after
The impact of Japan’s Nuberu bagu
The rise of the female auteur: Naomi Kawase and Claire Denis
Conclusion

2. Cinematic engagement between France and Japan
Kurosawa connections
Formalising co-productions
Conclusion

3. Directorial styles, influence and exchange
Styles and Technologies
Theatrical antecedents
Monochrome
Conclusion

4. Tora-san and the Monsieur Hulot influence
Tati: choreographing meaning through movement
Icons from another era
Ambivalence to modernity (and love)
Conclusion

PART B: Themes, Ideas and Approaches

5. Unemployment and the isolating self
The Personal Toll of Unemployment
Unemployment in France
Isolation
Conclusion

6. Location and the sense of place
Imagining the nation through rural/urban divides
Country living in French cinema
French Colonialism
Reflections of Japan as Coloniser
Absences
Conclusion

7. Confrontational cinema
Eroticism and sexploitation
Violence
Conclusion

8. Life, death and states of being
Hirokazu Kore-eda: Contemplations on Life
The Connectivity and Disconnectivity of Family in French Cinema
Conclusion

9. Adapting literary and visual texts
Fantasy
Drama
Conclusion

Conclusion: Where to next for the cinematic influence?
Audience and Reception

Films Cited
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	36 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-8293-4 / 1501382934
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8293-2 / 9781501382932
Zustand	Neuware