Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode
Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's contribution to the representation of real life in cinema and related forms. Donald Richie, who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the West, even claimed that Japan did not have a...
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Centeno, Marcos edt Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021 1 electronic resource (140 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's contribution to the representation of real life in cinema and related forms. Donald Richie, who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the West, even claimed that Japan did not have a true documentary tradition due to the apparent preference of Japanese audiences for stylisation over realism, a preference that originated from its theatrical tradition. However, a closer look at the history of Japanese documentary and feature film production reveals an emphasis on actuality and everyday life as a major part of Japanese film culture. That 'documentary mode' – crossing genre and medium like Peter Brooks' 'melodramatic mode' rather than limited to styles of documentary filmmaking alone – identifies rhetoric of authenticity in cinema and related media, even as that rhetoric was sometimes put in service to political and economic ends. The articles in this Special Issue, ‘Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode’, trace important changes in documentary film schools and movements from the 1930s onwards, sometimes in relation to other media, and the efforts of some post-war filmmakers to adapt the styles and ethical commitments that underpin documentary's "impression of authenticity" to their representation of fictional worlds English Music bicssc ethnofiction Japan documentary non-fiction dramatization Minamata disease Tsuchimoto Noriaki W. Eugene Smith Ishimure Michiko ethics of representation The Children of Minamata are Living Minamata: The Victims and Their World authorship documentary film hibakusha Japanese cinema Mizoguchi Kenji semi-documentary Shindō Kaneto film theory documentary film theory postwar Japan post-1945 Japan Hani Susumu cinéma verité direct cinema observational documentary cinematography the culture film Imamura Shōhei History of Post-War Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess fiction and documentary history memory experience magic lantern popular history movement avant-garde documentary new Left Teshigahara Hiroshi Adachi Masao subjectivity landscapes folklore studies documentary photography 3-03943-913-8 3-03943-914-6 Raine, Michael edt Centeno, Marcos oth Raine, Michael oth |
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