Contemporary Japanese Film by Mark Schilling

Contemporary Japanese Film by Mark Schilling

This comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profiles of leading directors and producers. Interpretive essays provide an overview of some of the key issues and themes of the decade, and provide background and context for the treatment of individual films and artists.

In Mark Schilling's view, Japanese film is presently in a period of creative ferment, with a lively independent sector challenging the conventions of the industry mainstream. Younger filmmakers are rejecting the stale formulas that have long characterized major studio releases, reaching out to new influences from other media--television, comics, music videos, and even computer games--and from both the West and other Asian cultures. In the process they are creating fresh and exciting films that range from the meditative to the manic, offering hope that Japanese film will not only survive but thrive as it enters the new millennium.

In 1975, Mark Schilling traveled to Japan with the intention of immersing himself in the culture, learning the language, and haunting the theaters. Since then, he's been there. He began reviewing Japanese films for the Japan Times in 1989 and has since written for a number of other publications, including Screen International, Premier Japan, Asian Newsweek, Asian Wall Street Journal, Japan Quarterly, Winds, Cinemaya, and Kinema Jumpo.

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ISBN 13	9780834804159
ISBN 10	0834804158
Title	Contemporary Japanese Film
Author	Mark Schilling
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	1999-11-01
Number of pages	400
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