Cinematic landscapes : observations on the visual arts and cinema of China and Japan / edited by Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser
- Bib ID:
- 2094866
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, c1994
- xii, 345 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0292720866 (alkaline paper)
- 0292720874 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Summary:
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China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. Noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositionaltechniques and construciton of images in thesetraditional and moderm art forms also inform filmmaking in these two countries, so that film and art share the same culturally defined "methods of seeing."Of interest to historians and film scholars with applications beyond the Far Eastern context. It demonstrates that while mainstream Hollywood cinema has influenced filmmaking everywhere, other national cinemas cannot be completely understood without considering their indigenous traditions.
- Full contents:
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- Table: Major Historical Periods. 1. Contrasts in Chinese and Japanese Art
- Pt. 1. Filmand the Visual Arts in China: An Introduction. 2. Chinese Visual Representation: Painting and Cinema. 3. Classical Chinese Painting and Cinematographic Signification. 4. Post-Socialist Strategies: An Analysis ofYellow Earth and Black Cannon Incident. 5. The Pain of a Half Taoist:Taoist Principles, Chinese Landscape Painting, andKing of the Children. 6. Judou: An experiment in Color and Portraiture in Chinese Cinema
- Pt. 2. Film and the Visual Artsin Japan: An Introduciton. 7. The Influence of Traditional Aesthetics on the Japanese Film. 8. Japanese Cinema and the Traditional Arts: Imagery, Technique, and CulturalContext. 9. Genroku chushingura and thePrimacy of Perception.
- 10. Ways of Seeing Japanese Prints and Films: Mizoguchi's Utamaro. 11. Kobayashi'sWidescreen Aesthetic. 12. Playingwith Form: Ichikawa's An Actor's Revenge and the "Creative Print". 13. Playing with Space: Ozu and Two-Dimensional Design in Japan 14. Gate of Flesh(tones): Color in the JapaneseCinema.
- Notes:
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- Filmography: p. 323-326.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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