Word and Image in Japanese Cinema

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Contributors
Foreword: outside views of the Japanese film Donald Richie
Introduction Carole Cavanaugh and Dennis Washburn
Part I. Wording the Image/Imaging the Word:
1. The word before the image: criticism, the screenplay, and the regulation of meaning in prewar Japanese film culture Aaron Gerow
2. The cinematic art of Higuchi Ichiyo's Takekurabe (comparing heights, 1895–1896) Janet Walker
3. Once More and Gosho's Romanticism in the Early Occupation Period Arthur Nolletti, Jr.
4. The taunt of the Gods: reflections on Woman in the Dunes Linda C. Ehrlich and Antonio Santos
5. Adapting The Makioka Sisters Kathe Geist
6. In the show house of modernity: exhaustive listing in Itami Jûzô's Tanpopo Charles Shirô Inouye
Part II. Reflections of Identity:
7. Where's mama? The sobbing Yakuza of Hasegawa Shin Alan Tansman
8. Saving the children: films by that most 'casual' of directors, Hiroshi Shimizu Keiko I. McDonald
9. Ishihara Yûjirô: youth, celebrity, and the male body in late 1950s Japanese culture Michael Raine
10. Otoko wa tsurai yo: nostalgia or parodic realism? Richard Torrance
11. A working ideology for Hiroshima: Imamura Shôhei's Black Rain Carole Cavanaugh
Part III. Outside the Frame of Culture:
12. Piss and run: or how Ozu does a number on SCAP Edward Fowler
13. In the realm of the censors: cultural boundaries and the poetics of the forbidden Leger Grindon
14. The arrest of time: the mythic transgressions of Vengeance Is Mine Dennis Washburn
15. The frenzy of metamorphosis: the body in Japanese pornographic animation Susan J. Napier
Selected bibliography of articles and books in English
Index.