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Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance (Hardcover): David Jortner, Keiko I. McDonald, Kevin J. Wetmore Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance (Hardcover)
David Jortner, Keiko I. McDonald, Kevin J. Wetmore; Contributions by Bruce Baird, Steven J. Clark, …
R3,524 R3,160 Discovery Miles 31 600 Save R364 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At the heart of the development of modern Japanese culture, the theatre mirrors the issues and concerns of a society transitioning from the Tokugawa era to the modern period. Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance fills a gap in current Japanese theatre scholarship; the book discusses the role of women in modern theatre, buto dance, experimental theatres that combine traditional theatre with modern forms, and plays by Abe Kobo, Mishima Yukio, and Senda Koreya. With important contributions from both established and emerging scholars, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in theatre, modern performance, or Japanese studies.

Inexorable Modernity - Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Hardcover, annotated edition): Hiroshi Nara Inexorable Modernity - Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Hiroshi Nara; Contributions by John K. Gillespie, David G. Goodman, Charles Shiro Inouye, Mikiko Hirayama, …
R3,517 R3,153 Discovery Miles 31 530 Save R364 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this challenge than was thought at the time, and they used a variety of strategies to address the tension between modernity and tradition. Inexorable Modernity illuminates our understanding of how Japan has dealt with modernity and of what mechanisms, universal and local, we can attribute to the mode of negotiation between tradition and modernity in three major forms of art-theater, the visual arts, and literature. Dr. Hiroshi Nara brings together a thoughtful collection of essays that demonstrate that traditional and modern approaches to life feed off of one other, and tradition, whether real or created, was sought out in order to find a way to live with the burden of modernity. Inexorable Modernity is a valuable and enlightening read for those interested in Asian studies and history.

Reading a Japanese Film - Cinema in Context (Hardcover): Keiko I. McDonald Reading a Japanese Film - Cinema in Context (Hardcover)
Keiko I. McDonald
R2,572 Discovery Miles 25 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessary tools to construct a deeper understanding of some of the most critically acclaimed and thoroughly entertaining films ever made. In her introduction, Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to film analysis. Sixteen "readings" of films currently available on DVD with English subtitles put theory into practice as she considers a wide range of work, from familiar classics by Ozu and Kurosawa to the films of a younger generation of directors.

From Book to Screen - Modern Japanese Literature in Films (Paperback, New Ed): Keiko I. McDonald From Book to Screen - Modern Japanese Literature in Films (Paperback, New Ed)
Keiko I. McDonald
R1,511 Discovery Miles 15 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Of all the world's cinemas, Japan's is perhaps unique in its closeness to the nation's literature, past and contemporary. The Western world became aware of this when Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice film festival in 1951 and the Oscar for best foreign film in 1952. More recent examples include Shohei Imamura's Eel, which won him the Palme d'Or (Best Picture) at Cannes in 1997.

From Book to Screen breaks new ground by exploring important connections between Japan's modern literary tradition and its national cinema. The first part offers a historical and cultural overview of the working relation that developed between pure literature and film. It deals with three important periods in which filmmakers relied most heavily on literary works for enriching and developing cinematic art. The second part gives detailed analyses of a dozen literary works and their screen adaptations.

For many reasons, the works selected for comparison and study all deserve cross-disciplinary analysis. For example, Ooka's Lady Musashino and Mizoguchi's film adaptation of it study adultery as a topic of great concern in postwar Japan. Even so, they differ significantly in their modes of representation. Both Toson's Broken Commandment and Ichikawa's film version investigate a difficult social issue, the plight of the outcast; here again, writer and director approach and interpret it in completely different ways.

The author has written this book to help Western audiences see Japanese films for what they are: universal in appeal, if sometimes difficult to access thanks to differences as vast as Eastern and Western culture. Now that our century of cinema is yielding to a centuryof video, the need to bridge differences can only grow more pressing -- and rewarding.

From Book to Screen - Modern Japanese Literature in Films (Hardcover): Keiko I. McDonald From Book to Screen - Modern Japanese Literature in Films (Hardcover)
Keiko I. McDonald
R4,496 Discovery Miles 44 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Of all the world s cinemas, Japan's is perhaps unique in its closeness to the nation's literature, past and contemporary. The Western world became aware of this when Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice film festival in 1951 and the Oscar for best foreign film in 1952. More recent examples include Shohei Imamura's Eel, which won the Palm d'Or (Best Picture) at Cannes in 1997.

From Book to Screen breaks new ground by exploring important connections between Japan's modern literary tradition and its national cinema. The first part offers an historical and cultural overview of the working relationship that developed between pure literature and film. It deals with three important periods in which filmmakers relied most heavily on literary works for enriching and developing cinematic art. The second part provides detailed analyses of a dozen literary works and their screen adoptions.

Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance (Paperback): David Jortner, Keiko I. McDonald, Kevin J. Wetmore Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance (Paperback)
David Jortner, Keiko I. McDonald, Kevin J. Wetmore; Contributions by Bruce Baird, Steven J. Clark, …
R1,325 Discovery Miles 13 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At the heart of the development of modern Japanese culture, the theatre mirrors the issues and concerns of a society transitioning from the Tokugawa era to the modern period. Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance fills a gap in current Japanese theatre scholarship; the book discusses the role of women in modern theatre, buto dance, experimental theatres that combine traditional theatre with modern forms, and plays by Abe Kobo, Mishima Yukio, and Senda Koreya. With important contributions from both established and emerging scholars, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in theatre, modern performance, or Japanese studies.

Inexorable Modernity - Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Paperback, annotated edition): Hiroshi Nara Inexorable Modernity - Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts (Paperback, annotated edition)
Hiroshi Nara; Contributions by John K. Gillespie, David G. Goodman, Charles Shiro Inouye, Mikiko Hirayama, …
R1,322 Discovery Miles 13 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this challenge than was thought at the time, and they used a variety of strategies to address the tension between modernity and tradition. Inexorable Modernity illuminates our understanding of how Japan has dealt with modernity and of what mechanisms, universal and local, we can attribute to the mode of negotiation between tradition and modernity in three major forms of art-theater, the visual arts, and literature. Dr. Hiroshi Nara brings together a thoughtful collection of essays that demonstrate that traditional and modern approaches to life feed off of one other, and tradition, whether real or created, was sought out in order to find a way to live with the burden of modernity. Inexorable Modernity is a valuable and enlightening read for those interested in Asian studies and history.

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