20th century japanese art history
20th century japanese film
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anti american sentiments
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brechtian theatricality
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cultural iconoclasm
cultural studies
cultural tensions
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filmic style
identity
in the realm of the senses
japanese student movement
oshima nagisa
political engagement
politics
postmodernism
postmodernity
postwar japanese art
postwar japanese cinema
psychoanalysis
reflexive textuality
representations of women
sexuality and power
socially daring
the empire of passion
Product details
- ISBN 9780520206663
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
