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1 online resource (361 pages). |
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Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film
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Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Figures -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Making of an Auteur: The Early Films (1958-1959) -- PART I KILLERS -- Chapter 3 Confronting America: Pigs and Battleships and the Politics of US Bases in Postwar Japan -- Chapter 4 Insect Men and Women: Gender, Conflict, and Problematic Modernity in Intentions of Murder -- Chapter 5 Hidden in Plain Sight: The False Leads and True Mysteries of Vengeance Is Mine -- Chapter 6 The Eel: Trauma Cinema -- PART II CLIENTS -- Chapter 7 The Insect Woman, or: The Female Art of Failure |
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Chapter 8 The Obscene in the Everyday: The Pornographers -- Chapter 9 Shohei Imamura's Profound Desire for Japan's Cultural Roots: Critical Approaches to Profound Desires of the Gods -- Chapter 10 "Products of Japan": Karayuki-san, The Making of a Prostitute -- Chapter 11 The Female Body as Transgressor of National Boundaries: The History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess -- PART III KINDRED SPIRITS -- Chapter 12 Better Off Being Bacteria: Adaptation and Allegory in Dr. Akagi -- Chapter 13 Time Out of Joint: Shohei Imamura and the Search for an "Other" Japan |
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Chapter 14 Promotional Discourses and the Meanings of The Ballad of Narayama -- Chapter 15 Boundary Play: Truth, Fiction, and Performance in A Man Vanishes -- Chapter 16 Why Not? Imamura, Nietzsche, and the Untimely -- Chapter 17 Kuroi Ame: An Anthropology of Suffering -- Chapter 18 The Symbolic Function of Water -- Index |
| Summary |
By giving shape to Imamura Shohei's career, this collection positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of Japanese society. |
| Local Note |
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Imamura, Shōhei, 1926-2006 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Imamura, Shōhei, 1926-2006. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Japan -- Biography.
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Motion picture producers and directors. |
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Japan. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Desser, David.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coleman, Lindsay. Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2019 9781474411813 |
| ISBN |
9781474411820 |
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1474411827 |
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1474411819 |
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9781474411813 |
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9781474411813 |
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