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The only Japanese director to have won the Palme d'Or from Cannes more than once, and second only to Ozu Yasujiro in the number of times he has won the prestigious Kinema Jumpo Best One award, the late Imamura Shohei was one of Japan's leading and most controversial film directors. This book is one of the first to study all of Imamura's major films alongside his television and theatrical documentaries, focusing on his major themes and concerns. By giving shape to Imamura's career, the book positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of Japanese society.

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Author:   Lindsay Coleman (PhD candidate, University of Melbourne) ,  David Desser (Professor, University of Illinois)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.547kg
ISBN:  

9781474481366

ISBN 10:   1474481361
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   16 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Making of An Auteur: The Early Films (1958-1959); Jennifer Coates Section I: Killers Chapter 3: Confronting America: Pigs and Battleships and the Politics of US Bases in Postwar Japan; Hiroshi Kitamura Chapter 4: Insect Men and Women: Gender, Conflict and Problematic Modernity in Intentions of Murder; Adam Bingham Chapter 5: Hidden in Plain Sight: The False Leads and True Mysteries of Vengeance Is Mine; John Berra Chapter 6: The Eel: Trauma Cinema; David Desser Section II: Clients Chapter 7: The Insect Woman, or: The Female Art of Failure; Michael Raine Chapter 8: The Obscene in the Everyday: The Pornographers; Lindsay Coleman Chapter 9: Shōhei Imamura’s Profound Desire for Japan’s Cultural Roots: Critical Approaches to Profound Desires of the Gods; Mats Karlsson Chapter 10: ‘Products of Japan’: Karayuki-san, The Making of a Prostitute; Joan Mellen Chapter 11: The Female Body as Transgressor of National Boundaries: The History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess; Bianca Briciu Part III: Kindred Spirits Chapter 12: Better off Being Bacteria: Adaptation and Allegory in Dr Akagi; Lauri Kitsnik　 Chapter 13: Time out of Joint: Shōhei Imamura and the Search for an ‘Other’ Japan; Bill Mihalopoulos Chapter 14: Promotional Discourses and the Meanings of The Ballad of Narayama; Rayna Denison Chapter 15: Boundary Play: Truth, Fiction, and Performance in A Man Vanishes; Diane Lewis　 Chapter 16: Why Not? – Imamura, Nietzsche and the Untimely; David Deamer Chapter 17: Kuroi ame: An Anthropology of Suffering; Dolores Martinez Chapter 18: The Symbolic Function of Water; Tim Iles Notes on Contributors 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　

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Lindsay Coleman is an independent film producer, and is completing his phD thesis at the University of Melbourne David Desser is Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois. He is a well-known scholar of Japanese cinema, author or editor of eight books on the subject. His latest publications are The Blackwell Companion to Japanese Cinema (2023) and, with Lindsay Coleman, Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura (2019). He has worked on a number of Blu-ray commentaries for Criterion (including Tokyo Story) and Arrow Academy, including a boxset of the films of Yoshida Kiju.

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