Kurosawa · Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Asia-Pacific · culture, politics, and society) by Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Japanese Cinema in Search of a Discipline

Humanism and Essentialism in the Postwar Era A Theoretical Turn? Cross-Cultural Analysis and Identity Politics Japanese Cinema and the Institutionalization of Film Studies Anxiety of Japanese Studies Area Studies in Disguise Conclusions

Part II The Films of Kurosawa Akira

1. Kurosawa Criticism and the Name of the Author

Why Kurosawa? Auteurism Revisited The Autobiographical Pact

2. Sanshiro Sugata

Action Film Zen and Samurai Values Unnatural Nature

3. The Most Beautiful

War/Propaganda/Japanese Cinema Ambiguous Collaboration

4. Sanshiro Sugata, Part 2 5. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail

Kabuki/Noh/Film Kabuki and the Construction of a Modern Nation Japan as a Conflicting Image

6. No Regrets for Our Youth

7. One Wonderful Sunday 8. Drunken Angel 9. The Quiet Duel 10. Stray Dog

Speech/Writing/Image The Madness of Rhetoric The Rhetoric of Visuality Name and Textuality Fetishism as Intervention The Dialectic of Memory

11. Scandal 12. Rashomon

Audiovisual Abstraction Narration in Film

13. The Idiot 14. Ikiru

Point of View and Subjectivity Confession Identification Death and Narrative Closure, or the Modality of Not Yet

15. Seven Samurai

Japanese Cinema and the Genre System What Is Jidaigeki? Jidaigeki and the Occupation Jidaigeki in the 1950s Western and Jidaigeki Kurosawa and Reinvention of Jidaigeki

16. Record of a Living Being 17. Throne of Blood

The Search for Japaneseness The Discourse of Adaptation and Cultural Capital Specificity of Form and Mode of Production

18. The Lower Depths 19. The Hidden Fortress 20. The Bad Sleep Well

Political Corruption and Theatrical Performance Duplicitous Identity and Deadly Knowledge Memory and Repetition

21. Yojimbo 22. Sanjuro 23. High and Low

Form and Content Self and Double The Anxiety of Urban Space Space and Cinema Subject, Space, and Nation Nation and Sentiment

24. Red Beard 25. Dodeskaden

The End of an Era Art/Imagination/Life

26. Dersu Uzala 27. Kagemusha 28. Ran 29. Dreams 30. Rhapsody in August 31. Madadayo

Epilogue Notes Filmography Bibliography Index