Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Oshima, Nagisa (Author), Lawson, Dawn (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0262650398 ISBN-13: 9780262650397 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1993 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Photography |
Dewey: 791.430 |
Series: October Books (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.92" W x 9.01" (1.31 lbs) 320 pages |
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Publisher Description: The texts in this volume make up an intellectual autobiography that reveals a rare conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. Nagisa Oshima is generally regarded as the most important Japanese film. director after Kurosawa and is one of Japan's most productive and celebrated postwar artists. His early films represent the Japanese New Wave at its zenith, and the films he has made since (including In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) have won international acclaim. The more than 40 writings that make up this intellectual autobiography reveal a rare conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. Entertaining, concise, disarmingingly insightful, they trace in vivid and carefully articulated detail the development of Oshima's theory and practice.The writings are arranged in chronological order and cover the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. Following a historical overview of the contemporary Japanese cinema, a substantial section articulates the theoretical and political rationale of 0shima's film production. Among many other topics considered in his essays, Oshima questions the economics of film production, the ethics of the documentary film, censorship (both political and sexual), and the relation of aesthetics and social taboos. A filmography and notes round out this important collection. |
Contributor Bio(s): Michelson, Annette: - Annette Michelson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. A founding editor of the journal October, she has written on art and cinema for more than five decades. |