The cinema of Ozu Yasujiro : histories of the everyday /
This text offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression, war and economic resurgence.
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017].
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| Series: | Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Ozu, history and the everyday
- Early Ozu : Shoshimin film and everyday realism
- Ozu in transition : the coming of sound and family melodrama
- Wartime Ozu : between bourgeois drama and national policy film
- Postwar Ozu : Ozu's Occupation-era film and Tokyo regained
- Late Ozu : new generation and new salaryman film
- Conclusion.