Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation - Couverture souple

Stafford, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472066641 ISBN 13 : 9780472066643

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 1998

Synopsis

In the late 1950s, Suzuki Seijun was an unknown, anxious low-ranking film director churning out so-called program pictures for Japan’s most successful movie studio, Nikkatsu. In the early 1960s, he met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild exploitation films featuring prostitutes and teenage rebels. In this book, Peter A. Yacavone argues that Suzuki became an unlikely cinematic rebel and, with hindsight, one of the most important voices in the global cinema of the 1960s. Working from within the studio system, Suzuki almost single-handedly rejected the restrictive filmmaking norms of the postwar period and expanded the form and language of popular cinema. This artistic rebellion proved costly when Suzuki was fired in 1967 and virtually blacklisted by the studios, but Suzuki returned triumphantly to the scene of world cinema in the 1980s and 1990s with a series of critically celebrated, avant-garde tales of the supernatural and the uncanny. This book provides a well-informed, philosophically oriented analysis of Suzuki’s 49 feature films.

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À propos de l'auteur

William Stafford authored more than thirty-five books of poetry and prose during his lifetime, including the highly acclaimed Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation and You Must Revise Your Life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472066641
• ISBN 13: 9780472066643
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Éditeur: Merchant Paul, Wixon Vincent
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible