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The business of understanding Japan and the United States in today's world : as seen through 'The Japanese Film' a PBS television series; produced by KQED, San Francisco / by Michael Berger Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, 1974.
Call No: 71(52) BERAuthor: Berger, Michael Source: USPlace: Berkeley, CaliforniaPublisher: Pacific Film Archive, University of California, BerkeleyPubDate: 1974PhysDes: 32 p. : ill. ; 28 cmSubject: JAPAN ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN Summary: Based around a thriteen week series on the American Public Broadcasting System, this guide comments on the Japanese films shown in the series and the various shared themes presented by the films in a way to help American's in business with the Japanese to understand their culture better.; The films shown are: Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa), Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi), Harp of Burma (Kon Ichikawa), Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda), Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi), Boy (Nagisa Oshima), Night Drum (Tadashi Imai), Ikuru (Akira Kurosawa), When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse), Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi), Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita), Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa), Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu).
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Cinematic landscapes : observations on the visual arts and cinema of China and Japan / edited by Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Call No: 408.3(5) CINAuthor: Ehrlich, Linda C. (Linda Channah), 1952 ; Desser, David Edition: 1st edPlace: Austin, Tex.Publisher: University of Texas PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xii, 345 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: CITY OF SADNESS, A [ ; JAPAN ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. CHINA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN ; HUANG TUDI (CC, Chen Kaige, 1985) ; HEI PAO SHI JIAN (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986) ; BLACK CANNON INCIDENT, THE (CC, Huang Jianxin, 1986) ; HAIZI WANG (CC, Chen Kaige, 1988) ; JU DOU (CC/JA, Zhang Yimou, 1990) ; GENROKU CHUSHINGURA (JA, Kenji Mizoguchi, 1942) ; YUKINOJO HENGE (JA, Kon Ichikawa, 1964) Summary: China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. Noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositionaltechniques and construciton of images in thesetraditional and moderm art forms also inform filmmaking in these two countries, so that film and art share the same culturally defined "methods of seeing."Of interest to historians and film scholars with applications beyond the Far Eastern context. It demonstrates that while mainstream Hollywood cinema has influenced filmmaking everywhere, other national cinemas cannot be completely understood without considering their indigenous traditionsNotes: Filmography: p. 323-326; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0292720866 (alk. paper); 0292720874 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 10645466
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In Godzilla's footsteps : Japanese pop culture icons on the global stage / Edited by William Tsutsui and Michiko Ito New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Call No: 409 TSUAuthor: Tsutsui, Wlliam ; Ito, Michiko Source: USPlace: New York, NYPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2006PhysDes: xii, 212p. ; b+w ill. : 24cm.Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; GODZILLA [GOJIRA] (JA, Koji Hashimoto & R.J. Kizar, 1985) ; GODZILLA IN FILMS Summary: "These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they were shaped (by and in turn shaped) postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons in the wake of the Godzilla phenomenon. They fall within a wide range of disciplines: film studies, anthropology, history, literature, theater, and cultural studies. Contributors include Susan Napier, Anne Allison, and Christine Yano.'Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781403964632Language: EnglishContents: When Godzilla speaks / Susan Napier 9 -- Mobilizing Gojira : mourning modernity as monstrosity / Mark Anderson 21 -- Gojira as Japan's first postwar media event / Barak Kushner 41 -- Lost in translation and morphed in transit : Godzilla in Cold War America /Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu 51 -- Wrestling with Godzilla: intertextuality, childish spectatorship, and the national body / Aaron Gerow 63
Mothra's gigantic egg : consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi 83
Hybridity and negotiated identity in Japanese popular culture / Joyce E. Boss 103
Teaching Godzilla : classroom encounters with a cultural icon / Joanne Bernardi 111
"Our first kiss had a radioactive taste" : Ohashi Yasuhiko's Gojira in Japan and Canada / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 127
Godzilla meets Super Kyogen, or how a dinosaur saved the world / Eric C. Rath 139
Monstering the Japanese cute: pink globalization and its critics abroad /Christine R. Yano 153
Kikaida for life : cult fandom in a Japanese live-action TV show in Hawai'i /Hirofumi Katsuno 167
Apocalypse in fantasy and reality: Japanese pop culture in contemporary Russia / Yulia Mikhailova 181
Epilogue : he did the stomp, he did the monster stomp / Theodore C. Bestor
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Mechademia 4 : War/Time / edited by Frenchy Lunning London: University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
Call No: 772(520):737.0 MECAuthor: Lunning, Frenchy Source: USPlace: Minneapolis; LondonPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: c2009PhysDes: xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSeries: Mechademia ; v. 4Subject: ANIMATION ; ANIMATION. JAPAN ; COMIC STRIPS ; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA ; JAPAN ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN ; VIDEO GAMES ; GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (JA, Isao Takahata, 1989) ; HOTARV NO HAKA (JA, Isao Takahata, 1988) ; NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (JA, 199?) Summary: "The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country's militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy pacifism imposed by the victors. Delving into topics ranging from the production of wartime propoganda to the multimedia adaptations of romance narrative, contributors to the fourth volume in the Mechademia series address the political, cultural, and technological continuum between war and the everyday time of orderly social productivity that is reflected, confronted, and changed in manga, anime, and other forms of Japanese popular culture." -- BOOK BLURBISBN: 9780816667499Contents: -- preface: war/time / Thomas Lamarre -- [Part 1]. Legacies of sovereignty. The filmic time of coloniality: on Shinkai Makoto's The Place promised in our early days / Gavin Walker -- Theorizing manga: nationalism and discourse on the role of wartime manga / Rei Okamoto Inouye -- Transcending the victim's history: Takahata Isao's Grave of the fireflies / Wendy Goldberg. [Part 2]. Control room. Gothic politics: Oshii, war, and life without death / Tom Looser -- Oshii Mamoru's Patlabor 2: terror, theatricality, and exceptions that prove the rule / Mark Anderson -- Waiting for the messiah: the becoming-myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko / Christophe Thouny -- War by metaphor in Densha otoko / Michael Fisch. [Part 3]. History/memory. Imagined history, fading memory: mastering narrative in Final Fantasy X / Dennis Washburn -- Haunted travelogue: hometowns, ghost towns, and memories of war / Michael Dylan Foster -- Three views of the rising sun, obliquely: Keiji Nakazawa's A-bomb, Osamu Tezuka's Adolf, and Yoshinori Kobayashi's Apologia / Sheng-Mei Ma -- Virtual creation, simulated destruction, and manufactured memory at the Art Mecho Museum in Second life / Christopher Bolton. [Part 4]. Genre violence. Ninja, Hidden Christians, and the two Ferreiras: On Endo Shusaku and Yamada Futaro / Takayuki Tatsumi ; translated by Seth Jacobowitz -- Monsters at war: the great Yo¯kai Wars, 1968-2005 / Zilia Papp -- From Jusuheru to Jannu: girl knights and christian witches in the work of Miuchi Suzue / Rebecca Suter. [Part 5]. Mobilization/Domestication. Empire through the eyes of a Yapoo: male abjection in the cult classic Beast Yapoo / Christine Marran -- Nippon ex machina: Japanese postwar identity in robot anime and the case of UFO Robo Grendizer / Marco Pellitteri -- Kobayashi Yoshinori is dead: imperial war/sick liberal peace/neoliberal class war / Mark Driscoll -- Manga: a comic interlude from Darumasan-ga-koronda, "Land mine in Central Park" / Yoji Sakate ; translated by Manami Shima, art by Chinami Sango -- Review and commentary -- two phases of Japanese illustrated fiction / Charles Shiro Inouye -- paradise lost...and found? / Paul Jackson -- molten hot: Japanese gal subcultures and fashions / Theresa M. Winge -- monstrous toys of capitalism / Brent Allison -- if Casshern doesn't do it, who will? / Deborah Shamoon -- psychoanalytic cyberpunk midsummer-night's dreamtime: Kon Satoshi's Paprika / Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog -- Torendo -- interview with Murase Shuko and Sato Dai / Deborah Scally, Angela Drummond - Mathews and Marc Hairston --
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The Oxford handbook of Japanese cinema / edited by Daisuke Miyao New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Call No: 71(52) OXFSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xii, 483 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSeries: Oxford handbooks of literatureSubject: JAPAN ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN ; INDUSTRY, FILM. JAPAN ; ANIME ; MANGA ; TSUKAMOTO SHINYA ; MIIKE TAKASHI ; MIZOGUCHI KENJI ; YASUJIRO OZU Summary: Features twenty essays, all by leading researchers in the field, that provide the reader with a multifaceted single-volume account of Japanese cinema
Engages in debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, as well as what and where Japanese cinema studies is
The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide between the West and Japan, even in realms of technological activity that are quite evidently dispersed across cultures. Film and media studies are not immune to this trend. They continue to fret over the "Westernness" of film technologies vis-à-vis the apparently self-evident "Japaneseness" of other modes of cultural production. The main goal of The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema is to counter this trend toward dichotomizing the West and Japan and to challenge the pervasive culturalism of today's film and media studies. This volume addresses productive debates about what Japanese cinema is, where Japanese cinema is, and where Japanese cinema is going at the period of crisis of national boundary under globalization. In order to do so, this volume attempts to foster dialogue between Japanese scholars of Japanese cinema, film scholars of Japanese cinema based in Anglo-American and European countries, film scholars of non-Japanese cinema, film archivists, film critics, and filmmakers familiar with film scholarship. [Extract taken from publisher's website]Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780199731664Contents: -- Introduction -- What is Japanese cinema studies?: Japanese cinema and cinema studies. Japanese film without Japan: toward an undisciplined film studies / Eric Cazdyn -- Triangulating Japanese film style / Ben Singer -- Critical reception: historical conceptions of Japanese film criticism / Aaron Gerow -- Creating the audience: cinema as popular recreation and social education in modern Japan / Hideaki Fujiki -- What is Japanese cinema?: Japanese cinema and the transnational network. Adaptation as "transcultural mimesis" / Michael Raine -- The edge of montage: a case of modernism/modanizumu in Japanese cinema / Chika Kinoshita -- Nationalizing Madame Butterfly: the formation of female stars in Japanese cinema / Daisuke Miyao -- Performing colonial identity: Byeonsa, colonial film spectatorship, and the formation of national cinema in Korea under Japanese colonial rule / Dong Hoon Kim -- Outpost of hybridity: Paramount's campaign in Japan, 1952-1962 / Hiroshi Kitamura -- Erasing China in Japan's "Hong Kong films" / Kwai Cheung Lo -- The emergence of the Asian Film Festival: Cold War Asia and Japan's re-entrance to the regional film industry in the 1950s / Sang Joon Lee -- Yamagata "Asia" Europe: International Film Festival short-circuit / Abe´ Mark Nornes -- What Japanese cinema is!: Japanese cinema and the intermedial practices. Nitrate film production in Japan: a historical background of the early days / Okada Hidenori ; translated by Ayako Saito -- Sketches of silent Film sound in Japan: theatrical functions of ballyhoo, orchestras and Kabuki ensembles / Shuhei Hosokawa -- The Jidaigeki film genre: Twilight Samurai and its contexts / Yamamoto Ichiro ; translated by Diane Wei Lewis -- Occupation and memory: the representation of woman's body in postwar Japanese cinema / Ayako Saito -- reading Nishijin (1961) as cinematic memory / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- by other hands: environment and apparatus in 1960s intermedia / Miryam Sas -- viral contagion in the Ringu intertext / Carlos Rojas -- media mix and the metaphoric economy of world / Alexander Zahlten -- index --ID2: 291
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