Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context

Description

Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessary tools to construct a deeper understanding of some of the most critically acclaimed and thoroughly entertaining films ever made. In her introduction, Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to film analysis. Sixteen “readings” of films currently available on DVD with English subtitles put theory into practice as she considers a wide range of work, from familiar classics by Ozu and Kurosawa to the films of a younger generation of directors.

• Author: Keiko I. McDonald
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Published: 2005-11-30
• Pages: 312
• ISBN-13: 9780824829391