Word and Image in Japanese Cinema

Abstract

List of illustrations Contributors Foreword: outside views of the Japanese film Donald Richie Introduction Carole Cavanaugh and Dennis Washburn Part I. Wording the Image/Imaging the Word: 1. The word before the image: criticism, the screenplay, and the regulation of meaning in prewar Japanese film culture Aaron Gerow 2. The cinematic art of Higuchi Ichiyo's Takekurabe (comparing heights, 1895-1896) Janet Walker 3. Once More and Gosho's Romanticism in the Early Occupation Period Arthur Nolletti, Jr. 4. The taunt of the Gods: reflections on Woman in the Dunes Linda C. Ehrlich and Antonio Santos 5. Adapting The Makioka Sisters Kathe Geist 6. In the show house of modernity: exhaustive listing in Itami J-zo's Tanpopo Charles Shiro Inouye Part II. Reflections of Identity: 7. Where's mama? The sobbing Yakuza of Hasegawa Shin Alan Tansman 8. Saving the children: films by that most 'casual' of directors, Hiroshi Shimizu Keiko I. McDonald 9. Ishihara Y-jiro: youth, celebrity, and the male body in late 1950s Japanese culture Michael Raine 10. Otoko wa tsurai yo: nostalgia or parodic realism? Richard Torrance 11. A working ideology for Hiroshima: Imamura Shohei's Black Rain Carole Cavanaugh Part III. Outside the Frame of Culture: 12. Piss and run: or how Ozu does a number on SCAP Edward Fowler 13. In the realm of the censors: cultural boundaries and the poetics of the forbidden Leger Grindon 14. The arrest of time: the mythic transgressions of Vengeance Is Mine Dennis Washburn 15. The frenzy of metamorphosis: the body in Japanese pornographic animation Susan J. Napier Selected bibliography of articles and books in English Index.