Japanese Cinema : Texts and Contexts (Hardcover)

List of figures  List of contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction ALASTAIR PHILLIPS AND JULIAN STRINGER  1. The Salary Man's Panic Time: Ozu Yasujiro's I Was Born, But… (1932) ALASTAIR PHILLIPS  2. All For Money: Mizoguchi Kenji's Osaka Elegy (1936) MORI TOSHIE  3. Turning Serious: Yamanaka Sadao's Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) FREDA FREIBERG  4. Country Retreat: Shimizu Hiroshi’s Ornamental Hairpin (1941) ALEXANDER JACOBY  5. The Riddle of the Vase: Ozu Yasujiro's Late Spring (1949) ABE MARK NORNES  6. History Through Cinema: Mizoguchi Kenji's The Life of Oharu (1952) JOAN MELLEN  7. The Menace from the South Seas: Honda Ishiro's Godzilla (1954) YOMOTA INUHIKO  8. Seven Samurai and Six Women: Kurosawa Akira's Seven Samurai (1954) D. P. MARTINEZ  9. Women's Stories in Post-War Japan: Naruse Mikio's Late Chrysanthemums (1954) CATHERINE RUSSELL  10. A Cinematic Creation: Ichikawa Kon's Conflagration (1958) KEIKO I. MCDONALD  11. Modernization without Modernity: Masumura Yasuzo's Giants and Toys (1958) MICHAEL RAINE  12. Questions of the New: Oshima Nagisa's Cruel Story of Youth (1960) MITSUHIRO YOSHIMOTO  13. Ethnicizing the Body and Film: Teshigahara Hiroshi's Woman in the Dunes (1964) MITSUYO WADA-MARCIANO  14. Dark Visions of Japanese Film Noir: Suzuki Seijun's Branded to Kill (1967) DAISUKE MIYAO  15. Eroticism in Two Dimensions: Shinoda Masahiro's Double Suicide (1969) CAROLE CAVANAUGH  16. Transgression and the Politics of Porn: Oshima Nagisa's In the Realm of the Senses (1976) ISOLDE STANDISH  17. Unsettled Visions: Imamura Shohei's Vengeance is Mine (1979) ALASTAIR PHILLIPS  18. Playing with Postmodernism: Morita Yoshimitsu's Family Game (1983) AARON GEROW  19. Transgression and Retribution: Yanagimachi Mitsuo's Fire Festival (1985)DONALD RICHIE  20. Community and Connection: Itami Juzo’s Tampopo (1985)LINDA EHRLICH  21. The Imagination of the Transcendent: Kore-eda Hirokazu's Maborosi (1995) DAVID DESSER  22. Therapy for Him and Her: Kitano Takeshi's Hana-Bi (1997) DARRELL WILLIAM DAVIS  23. The Original and the Copy: Nakata Hideo's Ring (1998) JULIAN STRINGER  24. The Global Markets for Anime: Miyazaki Hayao's Spirited Away (2001) RAYNA DENISON  Film Availability  Glossary  Bibliography of Works on Japanese Cinema  Electronic Resources