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FILM7005: Popular Cinema in East Asia View Online (Semester 2)
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Week 2 : (27 items)
Primary Reading:
Ozu and the poetics of cinema - David Bordwell, 2004 Book | Chapter 5 (pp73 - 108), and 'Early Summer' (pp316-321).
Yasujiro Ozu:
Books on Ozu:
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema - David Bordwell, 1994 Book | Out of print, but available online.
Includes detailed analyses of individual films, as well as a general account.
The cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: histories of the everyday - Woojeong Joo, 2017 Book
Ozu - Donald Richie, 1974 Book
Ozu's anti-cinema - Yoshishige Yoshida, 2003 Book
Books with sections on Ozu / Articles on Ozu:
Japanese film directors - Audie Bock, 1985 Book
To the distant observer: form and meaning in the Japanese cinema - Noe ̈ l Burch, Annette Michelson, 1979 Book | Mainly on Ozu's silent and early sound films. Out of print, but available online (see record below).
To the distant observer: form and meaning in the Japanese cinema - Noel Burch, 1979 Book | Mainly on Ozu's silent and early sound films. Out of print, but available online.
The Role of Marriage in the Films of Yasujiro Ozu - Kathe Geist, 1989 Article
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Narrative Strategies in Qzu's Late Films - Kathe Geist Chapter
Playing with Space: Ozu and Two-dimensional design in Japan - Kathe Geist Chapter
The waves at Genji's door: Japan through its cinema - Joan Mellen, c1976 Book
Classical Japanese cinema revisited - Catherine Russell, 2011 Book
Transcendental style in film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer - Paul Schrader, 1988 Book
On Specific Films:
Deleuze and the Time-Image in Early Summer - Thomas Boyer, 2015 Article
Vanished Men, Complex Women: Gender, Remembrance and Reform in Ozu's Postwar Films - Mauricio F. Castro Chapter | On several postwar films including Early Summer.
The flash of capital: film and geopolitics in Japan - Eric M. Cazdyn, c2002 Book | pp. 222-36. (on Late Spring).
Ozu's Tokyo story - David Desser, c1997 Book | Selected essays on Ozu's most famous film - useful for comparison.
Noriko smiling - Adam Mars-Jones, 2011 Book | on Late Spring.
The Riddle of the Vase: Ozu Yasujiro's Late Spring - Abe Mark Nornes, 2007 Chapter
Late Spring and Ozu's Unreasonable style - Kristin Thompson Chapter
Resistance to Definition; Ozu's "Noriko" Trilogy - Robin Wood, 1998 Chapter
Week 3 Reading: (16 items)
Thornton on Yamada:
Traditional narrative and Yamada Yoji Chapter
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The Japanese Jidai-Geki :
The Japanese film: art and industry - Joseph L. Anderson, Donald Richie, c1982 Book
Archetypes in Japanese film: the sociopolitical and religious significance of the principal heroes and heroines - Gregory Barrett, c1989 Book
Contemporary Japanese cinema since Hana-bi - Adam Bingham, 2015 Book | the first chapter is on jidai-geki and chanbara, including Twilight Samurai.
To the Distant Observer : Form and meaning in the Japanese cinema - Noel Burch, 1979 Document
Picturing Japaneseness: monumental style, national identity, Japanese film - Darrell William Davis, c1996 Book
Japanese classical theater in films - Keiko I. McDonald, c1994 Book
A hundred years of Japanese film: a concise history, with a selective guide to DVDs and videos - Donald Richie, Paul Schrader, 2005 Book
Currents in Japanese Cinema (trans. Gregory Barrett) - Tadao Sato, 1982 Book
The samurai film - Alain Silver, 2005 Book
The Japanese period film: a critical analysis - Sybil Anne Thornton, 2008 Book
On Twilight Samurai :
The in-depth analysis of the film taken from Thornton above is included on Moodle.
Yamda Yoji and the kinder, gentler samurai: The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and Love and Honor - Charles Shiro Inouye, 2009 Article | Full text of this article is not available via Oxford Brookes.
Week 4: Takeshi Kitano and the Yakuza Film : (18 items)
Gerow on Kitano :
Hana-Bi - Gerow Document | Available on Moodle
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Books on Kitano:
Kitano Takeshi - Aaron Andrew Gerow, 2007 Book | The best and most extensive critical account of Kitano's work.
Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano - Kasho ̄ Abe, Lawrence Chua, Takeo Hori, 2005 Book
The cinema of Takeshi Kitano: flowering blood - Sean Redmond, 2013 Book
Other material on Kitano and the Japanese Gangster Film:
The Midnight Eye guide to new Japanese film - Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, 2005 Book | Has an account of Kitano's life and work.
Contemporary Japanese cinema since Hana-bi - Adam Bingham, 2015 Book | Contains general commentary on Hana-bi and on Kitano.
A new history of Japanese cinema: a century of narrative film - Isolde Standish, 2005 Book | There is some analysis of the social implications of the seminal yakuza film 'Battles Without Honour and Humanity' (which the author calls Combat Without a Code).
Myth and masculinity in the Japanese cinema: towards a political reading of the "tragic hero" - Isolde Standish, 2000 Book | Contains some useful material about the 'tragic hero' in Japanese cinema.
Takeshi Kitano • Great Director profile • Senses of Cinema - Bob Davis Webpage | A useful online source - note links to other essays on the same website, including a couple of articles specifically on Hana-bi.
Some analysis of the yakuza genre can be found in:
Archetypes in Japanese film: the sociopolitical and religious significance of the principal heroes and heroines - Gregory Barrett, c1989 Book
Behind the mask: on sexual demons, sacred mothers, transvestites, gangsters, drifters and other Japanese cultural heroes - Ian Buruma, c1984 Book
The Yakuza Film: An Introduction - Keiko Iwai McDonald, 1992 Chapter | pp. 165 - 192
And (on a popular rather than academic level):
The yakuza movie book: a guide to Japanese gangster films - Mark Schilling, 2003 Book
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Week 5 Reading: (1 items)
Udden on Hou Hsiao-Hsien Document | Available on Moodle
Week 6 Reading: (2 items)
Cornelius on Yellow Earth Document | Available on Moodle
Leung on Yellow Earth Document | Available on Moodle
Week 7 Reading: (1 items)
Bordwell on Hong Kong Action Document | Available on Moodle
Week 8 Reading: (1 items)
Paquet on New Korean Cinema Document | Available on Moodle
Week 9 Reading: (1 items)
Lee on Koreans in Japan Document | Available on Moodle
Week 10 Reading: (3 items)
Please read the following online articles about In the Mood for Love:
Of Love and the City - Kent Jones, Jan/Feb 2001 Article
Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love: Like a Ritual in Transfigured Time - Stephen Teo, April 2001 Article
INTERSECTION[S]: On Wong Kar wai's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE - Catherine Grant, 17 March 2014 Article
Week 11 Reading: (1 items)
MacRoy on Japanese Horror Film
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Document | Available on Moodle
Week 12 Reading: (1 items)
McCarthy on Miyazki Document | Available on Moodle
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