日本映画と漂う心：映画的な存在の観照 Japanese Film and the Floating Mind : Cinematic Contemplations of Being

Vicari, Justin

McFarland & Co Inc（2016/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781476664989
• DDC分類 791.430952

Full Description

Japanese film is enduringly fascinating, challenging and rewarding. This book provides a cultural, historical and philosophical study of Japanese film, from the silent era to the present-day, focusing on its expansive consciousness. The author examines masterpieces by Ozu, Mizoguchi, Oshima and many other directors, discussing their influence on the Japanese culture of esoteric Zen Buddhism and relating them to recent neuroscientific theories of brain trauma.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface: Japanese Film X

Introduction: Paradoxes of Perception: In a Ghostly Theater

Part One: Toward the Last Ontology

1. Moon in Water

2. The Broken Heart of Ontology

3. Anxieties of Change, Changing Anxieties

4. Extremisms

5. The Last Ontology

Part Two: The Floating World

6. Refugees of the Floating World

7. The Meanings of the Wound

Part Three: Emperor Worship

8. The Problem of Emperor Worship

9. Naruse: An Early and Enduring Critic of Emperor Worship

10. Ozu, After Surrender

11. "Just a memory": The Figure of the Emperor in Postwar Melodrama

12. Three Films

Mizoguchi's Women of the Night

Imamura's Outlaw Matsuo Comes Home

Wakamatsu's Caterpillar

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index