This study examines the history of the Japanese period film and proposes that a powerful relationship exists between the past and present in Japan's narrative tradition. The first section of the book analyzes the form and function of the Japanese period film, describing the unique iconography and characteristics of films set in the past. The author also examines how the period film has allowed Japanese filmmakers to circumvent government censorship by serving as a rhetorical device with which they can explore contemporary concerns through a criticism of the past. The final section of the book contains chapters that focus on the narrative in Japanese epic, religion, theater, and modern popular literature. A complete filmography and bibliography are included.
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S.A. Thornton is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University.
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thematic composition, new national theater, historical realism, film realism, western representational realism, chivalry film, yakuza film, gunki monogatari, social hero, bamboo blade, formulaic diction, nihilist hero, staged combat, period film, battle literature, crossing narratives, oral tradition studies, tendency film, narrative set, type scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Narrative Set, The Scene, The Twilight Samurai, Japanese Narrative, The Japanese Hero, Inagaki Hiroshi, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Mizoguchi Kenji, Seven Samurai, The Japanese Period Piece, Makino Masahiro, Pure Land, Hasegawa Shin, Kurosawa Akira, The Abe Clan, Tsukue Ryunosuke, Kakuichi Heike, The Great Bodhisattva Pass, Matsuda Film Productions, Kunisada Chúji, Mifune Toshiro, Tsuruta Koji, Progressive Troupe, Shimizu Jirocho, Yellow Ribbon Browse Sample Pages:
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thematic composition, new national theater, historical realism, film realism, western representational realism, chivalry film, yakuza film, gunki monogatari, social hero, bamboo blade, formulaic diction, nihilist hero, staged combat, period film, battle literature, crossing narratives, oral tradition studies, tendency film, narrative set, type scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Narrative Set, The Scene, The Twilight Samurai, Japanese Narrative, The Japanese Hero, Inagaki Hiroshi, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Mizoguchi Kenji, Seven Samurai, The Japanese Period Piece, Makino Masahiro, Pure Land, Hasegawa Shin, Kurosawa Akira, The Abe Clan, Tsukue Ryunosuke, Kakuichi Heike, The Great Bodhisattva Pass, Matsuda Film Productions, Kunisada Chúji, Mifune Toshiro, Tsuruta Koji, Progressive Troupe, Shimizu Jirocho, Yellow Ribbon Browse Sample Pages:
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