The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film: Personal, Cultural, National

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-17138-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra

This study, from a variety of analytical approaches, examines ways in which contemporary Japanese film presents a critical engagement with Japan's project of modernity to demonstrate the 'crisis' in conceptions of identity. The work discusses gender, the family, travel, the 'everyday' as horror, and ways in which animated films can offer an ideal space in which an ideal conception of identity may emerge and thrive. It presents close, theoretically-informed textual analyses of the thematic issues contemporary Japanese films raise, through a wide range of genres, from comedy, family drama, and animation, to science fiction and horrror by directors such as Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Morita Yoshimitsu, Miike Takashi, Oshii Mamoru, Kon Satoshi, and Miyazaki Hayao, in language that is accessible but precise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iles, Timothy

Fachgebiete

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

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy Iles, Ph.D. (1997) in Modern Japanese Literature, University of Toronto, is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Victoria. He has published on Japanese cinema, literature, and theatre, including Abe Kobo: an Exploration of his Prose, Drama, and Theatre (European Press Academic Publishing, 2000).