Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist Volume 99

The Films of Suzuki Seijun
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-472-07570-6
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

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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Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- A Note on the Text and Translations Throughout this Book
- Chapter 1. The Recusant
- Chapter 2. The Dog (Rajo to kenju, Ankokugai no bijo, Kagenaki koe, Kaikyo chi ni somete, Kutabare gurentai, Tokyo kishitai, Subete ge kurutteru, Akutaro, Toge wo wataru wakai kaze, Akutaro-den: warui hoshi shita demo)
- Chapter 3. The Mirror (Yaju no seishun, Tantei Jimusho 2-3: Kutabare akuto-domo, Kemono no nemuri)
- Chapter 4. The Tattoo (Kanto mushuku, Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai, Hana to doto, Irezumi ichidai)
- Chapter 5. The Flesh (Nikutai no mon, Shunpuden, Kawachi karumen)
- Chapter 6. The Break (Tokyo nagaremono, Kenka erejii, Sandanju no otoko, Mikko 0-Rain, 13-go taihisen yori sono gososha wo nerae)
- Chapter 7. The Hinge (Koroshi no rakuin, Pisutoru opera)
- Chapter 8. The Double (Zigeunerweisen, Kagero-za, Yumeji, Hishu monogatari, Rupan sansei: Babiron no ogon no densetsu)
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Appendix: A Complete Filmography of Suzuki Seijun, Director