Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0292720866 ISBN 13: 9780292720862

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2000

Synopsis

China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. In these original essays, noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositional techniques, and construction of images in these traditional and modern art forms also inform filmmaking in the two countries, so that film and art share the same culturally defined "methods of seeing."

This first major study of the relationship between Chinese and Japanese art and film brings together writers from the United States, Europe, Australia, China, and Japan, including Japan's well-known film critic Sato Tadao and Beijing Film Academy's Ni Zhen, screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated film Raise the Red Lantern. The essays discuss the influence of the traditional arts, including scroll painting and printmaking, on Chinese and Japanese cinema and demonstrate that national cinemas cannot be completely understood without considering their indigenous traditions.

About this title

About the Authors

Linda C. Ehrlich is Associate Professor of Japanese, Comparative Literature, and Cinema at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

David Desser is Professor of Cinema Studies and Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292720866
• ISBN 13: 9780292720862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 365
• Editor: Ehrlich Linda C., Desser David