Donald Richie, whose earlier works have done so much to introduce Japanese cinema to the West, has here written the first introduction to Japanese film. Written in a highly accessible style, this up-to-date history offers a study of those qualities which make a film distinctly Japanese. It will be an invaluable resource to students of film appreciation, as well as to readers with an interest in Japan.
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This brief and lively book covers the whole of Japanese film history, from the silent period to the present day. In it, Ritchie teaches as much about Japanese cultural obsessions as he does the cinema, showing how significantly the former influenced the unique power of the latter. Here is a candid and revealing view of the medium, written by the Japanese cinema's most important Western critic.
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"Richie...here provides in this intelligent and concisely written little hardback just the sort of useful information about Japanese cultural conventions and filmmaking theories that should, with a bit of reflection, help Western audiences begin to "see" Japanese films almost as clearly as the Japanese themselves."--Emipire
"Japanese Cinema fits perfectly into an undergraduate class syllabus."--Linda Ehrlich, Univ. of Tennessee
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Brief, though very academic,
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This review is from: Japanese Cinema: An Introduction (Images of Asia) (Hardcover)
A very cursorary introduction to Japanese cinema, this focusses more on its origins. Most of the films featured are pre-1950, and very little is written about the Nikkatsu studios, or the Godzilla movies or less respectable 'genre films'. Instead this is useful as an introduction to serious film students , but it is hampered by its academic bias towards 'culturally important' film makers such as Ozu and Mizugochi, and is a little dry. For its size.
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THE latter half of the nineteenth century was, in Japan even more than elsewhere, an era of expansion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
national policy films, period films, film style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ozu Yasujiro, Ito Daisuke, Bando Tsumasaburo, Ichikawa Kon, Imamura Shohei, Oshima Nagisa, Page Out of Order, Sato Tadao, Shimizu Hiroshi, Yamanaka Sadao, Family Game, Fire Festival, Kurosawa Akira, Mizoguchi Kenji, Naruse Mikio, Shimazu Yasujiro, The Key, Was Born New!
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THE latter half of the nineteenth century was, in Japan even more than elsewhere, an era of expansion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
national policy films, period films, film style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ozu Yasujiro, Ito Daisuke, Bando Tsumasaburo, Ichikawa Kon, Imamura Shohei, Oshima Nagisa, Page Out of Order, Sato Tadao, Shimizu Hiroshi, Yamanaka Sadao, Family Game, Fire Festival, Kurosawa Akira, Mizoguchi Kenji, Naruse Mikio, Shimazu Yasujiro, The Key, Was Born New!
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- The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (Expanded Edition) by Joseph L. Anderson on 4 pages
- Japanese Cinema (National Film Traditions) by David Desser in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Currents in Japanese Cinema by Tadao Sato in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Literature and Culture: Selected Lectures of U.R. Anantha Murthy by A.J. Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Kafu the Scribber by Edward Seidensticker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier in Back Matter, and page
- A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos by Donald Richie in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology by Robert Knopf on page 79, and page 94
- Word and Image in Japanese Cinema by Dennis Washburn on page 56, and Back Matter
- Chinese Dragon Robes (Images of Asia) by Valery M. Garrett in Front Matter
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