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The only Japanese director to have won the Palme d'Or from Cannes more than once, and second only to Ozu Yasujiro in the number of times he has won the prestigious Kinema Jumpo Best One award, the late Imamura Shohei was one of Japan's leading and most controversial film directors. This book is one of the first to study all of Imamura's major films alongside his television and theatrical documentaries, focusing on his major themes and concerns. By giving shape to Imamura's career, the book positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of Japanese society.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Making of An Auteur: The Early Films (1958-1959); Jennifer Coates
Section I: Killers
Chapter 3: Confronting America: Pigs and Battleships and the Politics of US Bases in Postwar Japan; Hiroshi Kitamura
Chapter 4: Insect Men and Women: Gender, Conflict and Problematic Modernity in Intentions of Murder; Adam Bingham
Chapter 5: Hidden in Plain Sight: The False Leads and True Mysteries of Vengeance Is Mine; John Berra
Chapter 6: The Eel: Trauma Cinema; David Desser
Section II: Clients
Chapter 7: The Insect Woman, or: The Female Art of Failure; Michael Raine
Chapter 8: The Obscene in the Everyday: The Pornographers; Lindsay Coleman
Chapter 9: Shōhei Imamura's Profound Desire for Japan's Cultural Roots: Critical Approaches to Profound Desires of the Gods; Mats Karlsson
Chapter 10: 'Products of Japan': Karayuki-san, The Making of a Prostitute; Joan Mellen
Chapter 11: The Female Body as Transgressor of National Boundaries: The History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess; Bianca Briciu
Part III: Kindred Spirits
Chapter 12: Better off Being Bacteria: Adaptation and Allegory in Dr Akagi; Lauri Kitsnik
Chapter 13: Time out of Joint: Shōhei Imamura and the Search for an 'Other' Japan; Bill Mihalopoulos
Chapter 14: Promotional Discourses and the Meanings of The Ballad of Narayama; Rayna Denison
Chapter 15: Boundary Play: Truth, Fiction, and Performance in A Man Vanishes; Diane Lewis
Chapter 16: Why Not? - Imamura, Nietzsche and the Untimely; David Deamer
Chapter 17: Kuroi ame: An Anthropology of Suffering; Dolores Martinez
Chapter 18: The Symbolic Function of Water; Tim Iles
Notes on Contributors
