Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro - Histories of the Everyday

Klappentext This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression, war and economic resurgence. Zusammenfassung This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro career! from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963! focusing on Ozu's depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression! war and economic resurgence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of IllustrationsList of TablesINTRODUCTION: Ozu, History, and the EverydayCHAPTER 1EARLY OZU: Shoshimin Film and Everyday Realism CHAPTER 2OZU IN TRANSITION: Coming of Sound and Family MelodramaCHAPTER 3WARTIME OZU: In between Bourgeois Drama and National Policy Film CHAPTER 4OZU AND POSTWAR: Ozu's Occupation era films and Tokyo Regained CHAPTER 5LATE OZU: New Generation and New Salaryman Film Conclusion Select Filmography Select Bibliography Notes

Product details

• Authors: Woojeong Joo, JOO WOOJEONG
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2017
• EAN: 9780748696321
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-9632-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film; Edinburgh Studies in East Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias