Sentences with phrase «japanese film studies»

Therefore, rather than problematize or challenge prevalent paradigms within contemporary Japanese film studies, the first part of the volume, despite its bold promise, ultimately affirms a more orthodox direction not just as the right one, but also as productive and insightful.

The volume's twenty essays present different perspectives on Japanese cinema, the field of Japanese film studies, as well as concepts of national cinema and world cinema.

Not exact matches

And related to that: what is the state of film studies (Japanese films included) in Japan (if it exists at all)?

Thus, together the essays form a discourse based on a specific mode of spectatorship within the study of Japanese cinema, while the section as a whole marginalises popular reception of films by ordinary filmgoers.

The film, Kiarostami's follow - up to last year's Euro - set «Certified Copy,» centers on a young Japanese woman who finances her studies through prostitution, and her relationship with a brilliant, elderly academic, who is also one of her clients.

Kenji Mizoguchi is acknowledged as one of the masters of classic Japanese cinema, but his films are rarely exhibited or studied in film courses.

For many years before I had steeped myself in Japanese history and literature, reading widely, watching films, studying the language.

British / Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara's new project The Humanizer places Roger Casement's extraordinary biography at the core of an imagined new Hollywood biopic, while Irish born artist Duncan Campbell is working on his first film based in the Republic of Ireland, which takes as a starting point a series of American anthropological studies of Gaelic speaking rural communities in Ireland in the 60s and 70s.