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Tokyo Story: BFI Film Classics

Autor Alastair Phillips
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2022
This BFI Film Classics study of Tokyo Monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953) reveals the making, meaning and legacy behind Ozu Yasujiro's masterpiece.Ozu's moving family drama is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made. In its complex portrait of human motivation and lively sense of social space, it offers a profound and poignant insight into the generational shifts of post-war Japan.Alastair Phillips provides an in-depth analysis of the film and its key locations - the city of Tokyo, the town of Onomichi and the coastal resort of Atami - with a discussion of its representation of Japanese society at a time of great cultural change. Drawing upon Japanese and English language sources, he situates the film within various contemporary critical and industrial contexts and examines the multiple international dimensions of Tokyo Story's long after-life to understand its enormous contribution to global film culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781911239239
ISBN-10: 1911239236
Pagini: 112
Ilustrații: 60 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 135 x 190 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția British Film Institute
Seria BFI Film Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

First single-authored study of Tokyo Story, a masterpiece voted number 4 in the once-a-decade Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 poll

Notă biografică

Alastair Phillips is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the co-editor (with Hideaki Fujiki) of The Japanese Cinema Book (BFI, 2020) and Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (2007) (with Julian Stringer). He is an editor of Screen.

Cuprins

1. Openings and Journeys2. Tokyo Stories 3. Tokyo4. Onomichi5. Tokyo Story in Japan6. Tokyo Story in the World7. Coda CreditsNotesBibliography and Filmography

Recenzii

Generations the world over have pondered the complex beauty of Tokyo Story. Alastair Phillips pulls back the veil of awe that has come to surround the film over the years to reveal the making, meaning, and legacy of Ozu's masterpiece.
This is Alastair Phillips's personal and professional cinematic journey from Tokyo to Onomichi. In this concise BFI volume, Phillips provides a detailed textual, socio-historical, and biographical analysis on Ozu Yasujiro and his masterwork.
Alastair Phillips' Tokyo Story, a volume included in the continuing BFI Film Classics series . contains one of the most comprehensive and detailed discussions on this film. This is achieved not only through a close analysis of the entire text but also by examining every step of the filmmaking process from preproduction to reception, both in Japan and worldwide. This thorough approach, aided by several supporting primary sources in Japanese, makes this small volume a unique contribution to contemporary Ozu studies.