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cinema
Cinematography
Color films
depth of field
dialogue
Early Summer 1951
Emmanuel Levinas
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ethics
film studies
Floating Weeds 1959
gaze
Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere
habit
history
Itagaki Yoichi
Japan
Kiju Yoshida
Late Spring 1949
materiality
melodrama
Michael Raine
national cinema
nonhuman
Ozu Yasujiro
postponement
postwar
Realism
red
Repetition
sense of vision
tactility
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice 1952
time
Tokyo Story 1953
transcultural mimesis
World War II
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- ISBN 9781478033325
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy re-examines cinema studies through the work of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu, employing the multiple methodologies and indeterminacy of Ozu’s films as a model for discussions of cinema’s relationship to the world and the formation of film studies as a discipline. Centering a selection of Ozu films in each chapter, Daisuke Miyao builds a method based on the way films directed by Ozu avoid unitary perspective and allow multiple possibilities of standpoint and spectatorial position, which Miyao calls the ethics of indeterminacy. Analyzing Ozu’s use of cinematography, narrative, and color, Miyao theorizes the indeterminate in film—the seen and unseen, human and nonhuman, domestic and international—to initiate a multi-directional dialogue on the study of cinema that reaches beyond auteurism and culturalism to establish a new basis for disciplinary conversations.
Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author and editor of several books, including Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema, and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, published by Duke University Press.
