Description
Brings together professional film critics, academic specialists in cinema studies, and experts in Japanese culture to reassess the career of Japanese director/writer Ozu Yasujiro (1903-1963).
About the Author
Wayne Stein is Professor at the University of Central Oklahoma, USA, and teaches classes on Kurosawa, Japanese horror, and Vietnam War cinema. He has coauthored the readers Fresh Takes (2009) and Strategems (2009) and has written various chapters in books and encyclopedia entries on Asian American literature and Asian cinema. Marc DiPaolo is Assistant Professor of English and Film at Oklahoma City University, USA, and is the author of War Politics and Superheroes and Emma Adapted (2007); editor of Godly Heretics: Essays on Alternative Christianity in Literature (2013) and Unruly Catholics: Faith, Progressivism, and Cultural Studies (2013).
Reviews
These sophisticated essays certainly challenge, deepen and complicate our standard understanding of Ozu. All the more refreshing is that they are written in a clear, lively style, without a hint of academic jargon. * Phillip Lopate, Film Critic, Award-Winning Author, and Director of the Graduate Nonfiction Writing Program, Columbia University, USA *
From new perspectives on canonical films to new entries into the canon, this scintillating study of Ozu's cinema is truly a must-read for anyone who cares about its subject. No less important than new contextual understandings of Ozu's films drawn from the range of his career are the ways, often surprising but always convincing, that these essays demonstrate Ozu's influence on global cinema. No appreciation of Ozu is complete without this latest addition to the ever-growing literature on Japan's most fascinating and increasingly influential filmmaker. * David Desser, Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, USA, and editor of Ozu's Tokyo Story *
Book Information
ISBN 9781501320040
Author Wayne Stein
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 299g