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"The elegant, graceful, and deeply humanistic cinema of Gosho Heinosuke has found its perfect English-language explication in this equally elegant, graceful, and humanistic study by Arthur Nolletti. A director of wide-ranging interests, Gosho was at his strongest in stories of ordinary Japanese life. Like Mizoguchi he had a particular strength and sensitivity to women's issues; like Ozu he was a delicate yet piercing commentator on middle-class life. But he had a voice and style of his own, and Nolletti is careful to define and describe this sensibility in telling detail." -- David Desser
Through close readings of the most significant films of Gosho Heinosuke and descriptions of their historical, social, and industrial contexts, Arthur Nolletti illuminates the work of this important director. The careful attention Gosho gave to even the smallest gestures and nuances of character and emotion is matched by the breadth of Nolletti's research and the depth of his understanding. His analysis illustrates the important influence of Gosho's unique style and sensibility on cinematic form in Japan and beyond.
"The elegant, graceful, and deeply humanistic cinema of Gosho Heinosuke has found its perfect English-language explication in this equally elegant, graceful, and humanistic study by Arthur Nolletti. A director of wide-ranging interests, Gosho was at his strongest in stories of ordinary Japanese life. Like Mizoguchi he had a particular strength and sensitivity to women's issues; like Ozu he was a delicate yet piercing commentator on middle-class life. But he had a voice and style of his own, and Nolletti is careful to define and describe this sensibility in telling detail." David Desser"
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Gosho and Shomin Comedy in the 1930s | p. 13 |
| Dancing Girl of Izu (1933) and the Junbungaku Movement | p. 43 |
| Woman of the Mist (1936): Blending the Shomin-geki, Shitamachi, and Romantic Melodrama | p. 63 |
| Once More (1947) and Gosho's Romanticism in the Early Occupation Period | p. 83 |
| Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953): A New Kind of Shomin-geki | p. 107 |
| An Inn at Osaka (1954): Money, Democracy, and Limited Knowledge | p. 131 |
| Growing Up (1955): Adapting the Meiji-mono, Reconfiguring the Shomin-geki | p. 156 |
| The Late 1950s: New Challenges and the Quest to Create | p. 182 |
| Gosho in the 1960s: Changing Times, Undiminished Mastery | p. 212 |
| Three Films | p. 245 |
| Notes | p. 255 |
| Filmography: Gosho Heinosuke | p. 283 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 311 |
| Index | p. 317 |
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ISBN: 9780253344847
ISBN-10: 0253344840
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 15th April 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.4
x 3.1
Weight (kg): 0.739
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