The films of Oshima Nagisa : images of a Japanese iconoclast

The films of Oshima Nagisa : images of a Japanese iconoclast / Maureen Turim.

This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For almost forty years, Oshima has produced provocative films that have received wide distribution and in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turim, Maureen Cheryn, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Subjects:
Ōshima, Nagisa, > 1932-2013 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ōshima, Nagisa, > 1932-2013
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Cultural Iconoclasm and Contexts of Innovation
  • 2. Cruel Stories of Youth and Politics
  • 3. Rituals, Desire, Death: Leaving One's Will on Film
  • 4. Signs of Sexuality on Oshima's Tales of Passion
  • 5. Warring Subjects
  • 6. Popular Song, Fantasies, and Comedies of Iconoclasm
  • 7. Documents of Guilt and Empire
  • 8. Feminist Troubles on a Map of Split Subjectivities
  • Conclusion: Whither Oshima?

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