Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence 1st Edition

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• ISBN 10: 0190860189
• ISBN 13: 9780190860189
• Author: Choi Jinhee

Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. With fifteen never before published chapters in English by contributors from North America, Europe, and Japan, Reorienting Ozu explores the Japanese director’s oeuvre and his lasting impact on global art cinema. Exploring major theoretical frameworks that characterize Ozu studies, chapters consider the various cultural factors that influenced the director’s cinematic output, such as the anxiety of middleclass Japan in the 1930s, the censorship imposed by the US-occupation after World War II, and women’s rights in Ozu’s late work such as Tokyo Twilight (1957). Ultimately, chapters illuminate Ozu’s influence on the directors of Japan and beyond. With the recent restoration and re-release of Ozu’s early and late films, this volume provides an opportunity to examine not only the auteur’s major works but also the relationships–both cultural and aesthetic–that are forged among directors across the world.

Table of contents:

1. Section I: Branding Ozu
2. 1. Watch Again! Look Well! Look!
3. 2. Ozu, the Ineffable
4. 3. Ozu to Asia via Hasumi
5. 4. A Dialogue with “Memory” in Hou Hsiao‐hsien’s Café Lumière (2003)
6. 5. Ozuesque as a Sensibility: Or, on the Notion of Influence
7. Section II: Historicizing Ozu
8. 6. A New Form of Silent Cinema: Intertitles and Interlocution in Ozu Yasujiro’s Late Silent Films
9. 7. Ozu and the Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Cinematography in There Was a Father (1942)
10. 8. Modernity, Shoshimin Films, and the Proletarian-Film Movement: Ozu in Dialogue with Vertov
11. 9. Laughing in the Shadows of Empire: Humor in Ozu’s Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
12. Section III: Tracing Ozu
13. 10. Autumn Afternoons: Negotiating the Ghost of Ozu in Iguchi Nami’s Dogs and Cats (2004)
14. 11. Playing the Holes: Notes on the Ozuesque Gag
15. 12. Rhythm, Texture, Moods: Ozu Yasujiro, Claire Denis, and a Vision of a Postcolonial Aesthetic
16. 13. Wenders Travels with Ozu
17. 14. Look? Optical/Sound Situations and Interpretation: Ozu—(Deleu

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