| Author |
Yacavone, Peter A. (Peter Andrew), 1978- author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0332-2377
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| Title |
Negative, nonsensical, and non-conformist : the films of Suzuki Seijun / Peter A. Yacavone. |
| OCLC |
on1370012113 |
| ISBN |
9780472903474 open access book |
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0472903470 open access book |
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9780472075706 hardcover book |
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9780472055708 paperback book |
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0472075705 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
10.3998/mpub.11486286 doi |
| Publisher |
Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023. |
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©2023 |
| Description |
1 online resource (402 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Suzuki, Seijun, 1923-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha -- History -- 20th century.
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Exploitation films -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Horror films -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Experimental films -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Electronic books
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-396) and index. |
| NOTE |
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
| Abstract |
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. |
| NOTE |
Description based on information from the publisher. |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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