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William Carroll offers a new account of Suzuki Seijun¿s career that highlights the intersections of film theory, film production, cinephile culture, and politics in 1960s Japan. This book presents both a major reinterpretation of Suzuki¿s work and a new lens on postwar Japanese film culture and industry.
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Note on Names, Images, and Translations
Introduction: Why Suzuki Seijun?
1. 1968 and the Suzuki Seijun Incident
2. Suzuki Seijun and the Impossibility of Cinema
3. Postwar Japanese Genre Filmmaking and the Nikkatsu Action Sylistic Idiom
4. The Emergence of the Seijunesque
5. The Authorial Voice of Suzuki Seijun
Coda
Appendix 1. Filmography
Appendix 2. Unfilmed Projects
Appendix 3. Guryū Hachirō Extended Filmography
Appendix 4. Suzuki Seijun as Assistant Director
Appendix 5. Commercials Directed by Suzuki Seijun
Appendix 6. Books Written by Suzuki Seijun
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
William Carroll is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
Riassunto
William Carroll offers a new account of Suzuki Seijun’s career that highlights the intersections of film theory, film production, cinephile culture, and politics in 1960s Japan. This book presents both a major reinterpretation of Suzuki’s work and a new lens on postwar Japanese film culture and industry.
Testo aggiuntivo
Suzuki Seijun and Post War Japanese Cinema is not only a thoughtful, stimulating and rigorous study of a neglected Japanese filmmaker, but also makes a major contribution to our understanding of critical discourses circulating in Japan and the situation of the domestic film industry during the protracted decline of the studio system.
