THE FILMS OF OSHIMA NAGISA. IMAGES OF A JAPANESE ICONOCLAST

TURIN, M.

ISBN 10: 0520206665 / ISBN 13: 9780520206663

Published by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, THE, LONDON, 1998

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TURIN, M.: THE FILMS OF OSHIMA NAGISA. IMAGES OF A JAPANESE ICONOCLAST. LONDON, 1998, x 314 p. fotografias, 545 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (TH-1-6) 545 gr.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE FILMS OF OSHIMA NAGISA. IMAGES OF A JAPANESE ICONOCLAST
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, THE, LONDON
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520206665
• ISBN 13: 9780520206663
• Binding: Tapa blanda
• Edition: 1ª edición.
• Condition: New
• Book Type: Libro
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For almost forty years, Oshima has produced provocative films that have received wide distribution and international acclaim. Formally innovative as well as socially daring, they provide a running commentary, direct and indirect, on the cultural and political tensions of postwar Japan.

Best known today for his controversial films In the Realm of the Senses and The Empire of Passion, Oshima engages issues of sexuality and power, domination and identity, which Maureen Turim explores in relation to psychoanalytic and postmodern theory. The films' complex representation of women in Japanese society receives detailed and careful scrutiny, as does their political engagement with the Japanese student movement, postwar anti-American sentiments, and critiques of Stalinist tendencies of the Left. Turim also considers Oshima's surprising comedies, his experimentation with Brechtian and avant-garde theatricality as well as reflexive textuality, and his essayist documentaries in this look at an artist's gifted and vital attempt to put his will on film.

About the Author

Maureen Turim is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Florida and author of Abstraction in Avant-Garde Film (1981) and Flashbacks in Film: Memory and History (1989).