Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi - (Traditions in World Cinema) by Adam Bingham (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This book studies the key genres in contemporary Japanese cinema through analysis of their key representative films. It considers both those films whose generic lineage is clearly definable (samurai, yakuza, horror) as well as the singularity of several recent trends in the country's filmmaking (such as magic realist filmmaking). </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book looks at some of the key genres in Japanese cinema since 1997. In several cases it considers in detail the ways in which individual films have both drawn and departed from those films that have comprised the key works and trends in these generic categories, and in others it looks at some significant recent developments that have little real precedence in filmmaking in Japan. Through close textual analysis of representative films, the study seeks to elucidate the prevalence of repetition and variation in contemporary Japanese genre cinema, to understand some of the reasons behind this paradigm, and analyze where relevant how and to what extent new modes or generic groups fit into the schema. In so doing it seeks for the first time in English language discourse to offer an academic appreciation and overview of popular Japanese of the last two decades. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'This is a lively and informative survey of recent trends in Japanese cinema that will interest a very wide readership of students and curious cinephiles. Bingham is an engaging and reliable critical cartographer whose mapping of the field is accomplished in an illuminating, adventurous and thoughtful fashion.' Alastair Phillips, University of Warwick Yakuza, samurai and horror films have been some of the most popular genres in Japanese cinema over the last two decades, with a clearly defined generic lineage in the country's cinematic tradition. Studying these and other genres through a close analysis of their most representative films, this innovative study examines the way individual films have either adapted to or drawn away from their own genre conventions, or, in the case of 'magic realist' films, have introduced significant new developments which have little real precedent in Japanese filmmaking. With close textual analysis, this study looks at the prevalence of repetition and variation in these contemporary Japanese genres, offering for the first time in English an academic appreciation and overview of popular Japanese cinema in the new millennium. Looking at the work of directors as varied as Kitano 'Beat' Takeshi and Kurosawa Kiyoshi, and films as iconic as Hana-Bi and The Bird People in China, this book provides an invaluable resource for film students and scholars alike. Adam Bingham teaches Film Studies at Edge Hill University and is a regular contributor to publications such as CineAction, Cineaste, Asian Cinema and others. Cover image: still from Dolls by Takeshi Kitano, 2002 (c) Bandai Visual, Tokyo Fm, Television Tokyo and Office Kitano Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Adrian Bingham is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Sheffield. He has written widely about the popular press, including Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain (OUP, 2004), Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-78 (OUP, 2009), and, with Professor Martin Conboy, Tabloid Century: The Popular Press in Britain, 1896 to the present (Peter Lang, 2015).<p>
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