Half Empty Articles : Marty's Japanese Film Notes

This list of readings was compiled by David McIntosh for his course, "Japanese Cinema: Code, Text and Context" at the Ontario College of Art & Design in the winter of 1999.

Cohen, Robert, "Why Does Oharu Faint? Mizoguchi's The Life of Oharu and Patriarchal Discourse" (pp 33-55) and Tessier, Max, "Oshima Nagisa, or the Battered Energy of Desire" (pp 69-85) in Arther Noletti and David Desser, Reframing Japanese Cinema ISBN 0253207231

Cavanaugh, Carole, "Unwriting the Female Persona in Osaka Elegy and The Life of Oharu" in Mizoguchi, The Master, (pp 64-65)

Burch, Noel, "Preface," (pp 11-40); "Film and Democracy," (pp 271-281); "Kurosawa Akira" (pp 291-306); and "Oshima Nagisa" (pp 325-329) in To The Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in Japanese Cinema ISBN 0520036050

Dresser, David, "Introduction," (pp 1-21) and "Buddhism in Tokyo Story" (pp 101-117) in Ozu's Tokyo Story ISBN 0521484359

Dresser, David, "Introduction" (pp 1-12) and "Ruined Maps" (pp 76-107) in Eros Plus Massacre ISBN 0253204690

Scott Nygren, "Reconstructing Modernism: Japanese Film and the Post-modern Context" (pp 71-73) in Wide Angle, 11, 3, 1989

Oshima, Nagisa, "Perspectives on Japanese Cinema" (pp 6-17), "Beyond Endless Self-Negation: The Attitude of the New Filmmakers" (pp 47-53)), "Sexual Poverty" (pp 240-248) and "Theory of Experimental Pornographic Film" (pp 251-264) in The Wrtings of Nagisa Oshima: Cinmea, Censorship and the State ISBN 0262150409

Server, Lee, "Seijun Suzuki" (pp 68-71); "Japanese Cinema Today" (pp 73-79) and "Anime" (pp 85-89) in Asian Pop Culture, ISBN 0811821196

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