Reframing Japanese cinema : authorship, genre, history

Woman Of The Mist And Gosho In The 1930s / Arthur Nolletti, Jr. -- Why Does Oharu Faint? : Mizoguchi's The Life Of Oharu And Patriarchal Discourse / Robert N. Cohen -- Ikiru : Narration As A Moral Act / David Desser -- Oshima Nagisa, Or The Battered Energy Of Desire / Max Tessier -- Narrative Strategies In Ozu's Late Films / Kathe Geist -- The Inn Sequence From Ozu's Late Autumn / Donald Richie -- Period Films In The Prewar Era / Lisa Spalding -- Toward A Structural Analysis Of The Postwar Samurai Film / David Desser -- The Yakuza Film : An Introduction / Keiko Iwai Mcdonald -- Fires On The Plain : The Human Cost Of The Pacific War / William B. Hauser -- Comic Targets And Comic Styles : An Introduction To Japanese Film Comedy / Gregory Barrett. Some Characteristics Of Japanese Cinema Before World War I / Komatsu Hiroshi -- Spoken Silents In The Japanese Cinema; Or, Talking To Pictures : Essaying The Katsuben, Contextualizing The Texts / J.l. Anderson -- Sound In The Early Japanese Talkies / Iwamoto Kenji -- A Cinema Of Flourishes : Japanese Decorative Classicism Of The Prewar Era / David Bordwell. Edited By Arthur Nolletti, Jr. And David Desser. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.