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ReFocus: The Films of Kon Ichikawa features 12 original chapters exploring the prolific career of Japanese director Kon Ichikawa. Bringing together scholars from around the world, this is the first English-language collection published on Ichikawa.
In addition to an introduction which provides comprehensive biographical information and an extensive chronicle of Ichikawa's impressively expansive and influential eight decades in the film industry, the chapters range over his filmmaking philosophies and methods, his collaborations with such important figures as his wife and screenwriting partner Natto Wada and renowned cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, his fondness for animation and manga, and his adaptations of famous novels by such prominent authors as Yukio Mishima, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Seishi Yokomizo.
Featuring new and groundbreaking work on one of the most important and influential of all Japanese filmmakers, ReFocus: The Films of Kon Ichikawa is a much-needed addition to film studies and the history of Japanese cinema.
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Kyle Barrowman
1. Isolating Ichikawa: Auteurism between Form and Content
Kyle Barrowman
2. A High Commercial Aesthetic: Rethinking Authorship and Adaptation through the Films of Kon Ichikawa and Natto Wada
Diane Wei Lewis
3. The Way of the Painter: Watching Kon Ichikawa Think Through Images
Isolde Vanhee
4. Two Dark Men: Kon Ichikawa and Kazuo Miyagawa's Chromatic Experiments in Black
Daisuke Miyao
5. Kon Ichikawa: The Man Who Visualized the Landscape of Collective Memory in Japan
Kiyoko Nagai
6. Kon Ichikawa and the National Imaginary: An Ambivalent Relationship
Christopher Smith
7. The Bitterness of Youth: Punishment Room and the Sun Tribe Films in Postwar Japan
Erica Ka-yan Poon
8. Kon Ichikawa's Theater of War
Daniel Morgan
9. Staging Scenes of Poetic Justice: Ichikawa's Kindaichi Mystery Adaptations
Jeffrey DuBois
10. The Architectonics of Voyeurism and Familial Interactions in Odd Obsession and The Makioka Sisters, Ichikawa's Tanizaki Adaptations
Maureen Turim
11. Orchestrating Spectacles: Project Cinema from Tokyo Olympics '64 to Osaka Expo '70
Hideaki Fujiki
12. Kon-mation
Laura Lee
Index



