Cinema, Censorship, and the State

The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-262-65039-7
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 548 g

Reihe: October Books

The more than 40 writings that make up this intellectual autobiography reveal a rare conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. Nagisa Oshima is generally regarded as the most important Japanese film. director after Kurosawa and is one of Japan's most productive and celebrated postwar artists. His early films represent the Japanese New Wave at its zenith, and the films he has made since (including In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) have won international acclaim. The more than 40 writings that make up this intellectual autobiography reveal a rare conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. Entertaining, concise, disarmingingly insightful, they trace in vivid and carefully articulated detail the development of Oshima's theory and practice.The writings are arranged in chronological order and cover the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. Following a historical overview of the contemporary Japanese cinema, a substantial section articulates the theoretical and political rationale of 0shima's film production. Among many other topics considered in his essays, Oshima questions the economics of film production, the ethics of the documentary film, censorship (both political and sexual), and the relation of aesthetics and social taboos.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oshima, Nagisa

Michelson, Annette

Weitere Mitwirkende

Michelson, Annette

Lawson, Dawn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Über Autor(innen)

Michelson, Annette
Annette Michelson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. A founding editor of the journal October, she has written on art and cinema for more than five decades.

Michelson, Annette
Annette Michelson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. A founding editor of the journal October, she has written on art and cinema for more than five decades.

Annette Michelson is Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University.