Cinematic landscapes : observations on the visual arts and cinema of China and Japan
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Cinematic landscapes : observations on the visual arts and cinema of China and Japan
University of Texas Press, c1994
1st ed
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Includes filmography (p. 323-326)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-330) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. In these original essays, noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositional techniques, and construction of images in these traditional and modern art forms also inform filmmaking in the two countries, so that film and art share the same culturally defined "methods of seeing."
This first major study of the relationship between Chinese and Japanese art and film brings together writers from the United States, Europe, Australia, China, and Japan, including Japan's well-known film critic Sato Tadao and Beijing Film Academy's Ni Zhen, screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated film Raise the Red Lantern. The essays discuss the influence of the traditional arts, including scroll painting and printmaking, on Chinese and Japanese cinema and demonstrate that national cinemas cannot be completely understood without considering their indigenous traditions.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introductory Remarks
Editors' Introduction
Table: Major Historical Periods
1. Contrasts in Chinese and Japanese Art (Sherman Lee)
Part One
Film and the Visual Arts in China: An Introduction (Douglas Wilkerson)
2. Chinese Visual Representation: Painting and Cinema (Hao Dazheng)
3. Classical Chinese Painting and Cinematographic Signification (Ni Zhen)
4. Post-Socialist Strategies: An Analysis of Yellow Earth and Black Cannon Incident (Chris Berry and Mary Ann Farquhar)
5. The Pain of a Half Taoist: Taoist Principles, Chinese Landscape Painting, and King of the Children (An Jingfu)
6. Judou: An Experiment in Color and Portraiture in Chinese Cinema (Jenny Kwok Wah Lau)
Part Two
Film and the Visual Arts in Japan: An Introduction (Thomas Rimer)
7. The Influence of Traditional Aesthetics on the Japanese Film (Donald Richie)
8. Japanese Cinema and the Traditional Arts: Imagery, Technique, and Cultural Context (Sato Tadao)
9. Genroku chushingura and the Primacy of Perception (D. William Davis)
10. Ways of Seeing Japanese Prints and Films: Mizoguchi's Utamaro (Dudley Andrew)
11. Kobayashi's Widescreen Aesthetic (Cynthia Contreras)
12. Playing with Form: Ichikawa's An Actor's Revenge and the "Creative Print" (Linda C. Ehrlich)
13. Playing with Space: Ozu and Two-Dimensional Design in Japan (Kathe Geist)
14. Gate of Flesh(tones): Color in the Japanese Cinema (David Desser)
Filmography
Selected Works
Notes on Contributors
Index
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