Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode

Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's contribution to the representation of real life in cinema and related forms. Donald Richie, who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the West, even claimed that Japan did not have a true...

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description Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's contribution to the representation of real life in cinema and related forms. Donald Richie, who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the West, even claimed that Japan did not have a true documentary tradition due to the apparent preference of Japanese audiences for stylisation over realism, a preference that originated from its theatrical tradition. However, a closer look at the history of Japanese documentary and feature film production reveals an emphasis on actuality and everyday life as a major part of Japanese film culture. That 'documentary mode' – crossing genre and medium like Peter Brooks' 'melodramatic mode' rather than limited to styles of documentary filmmaking alone – identifies rhetoric of authenticity in cinema and related media, even as that rhetoric was sometimes put in service to political and economic ends. The articles in this Special Issue, ‘Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode’, trace important changes in documentary film schools and movements from the 1930s onwards, sometimes in relation to other media, and the efforts of some post-war filmmakers to adapt the styles and ethical commitments that underpin documentary's "impression of authenticity" to their representation of fictional worlds
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-764102024-03-24T11:39:15Z Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode Centeno, Marcos Raine, Michael ethnofiction Japan documentary non-fiction dramatization Minamata disease Tsuchimoto Noriaki W. Eugene Smith Ishimure Michiko ethics of representation The Children of Minamata are Living Minamata: The Victims and Their World authorship documentary film hibakusha Japanese cinema Mizoguchi Kenji semi-documentary Shindō Kaneto film theory documentary film theory postwar Japan post-1945 Japan Hani Susumu cinéma verité direct cinema observational documentary cinematography the culture film Imamura Shōhei History of Post-War Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess fiction and documentary history memory experience magic lantern popular history movement avant-garde documentary new Left Teshigahara Hiroshi Adachi Masao subjectivity landscapes folklore studies documentary photography n/a thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's contribution to the representation of real life in cinema and related forms. Donald Richie, who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the West, even claimed that Japan did not have a true documentary tradition due to the apparent preference of Japanese audiences for stylisation over realism, a preference that originated from its theatrical tradition. However, a closer look at the history of Japanese documentary and feature film production reveals an emphasis on actuality and everyday life as a major part of Japanese film culture. That 'documentary mode' – crossing genre and medium like Peter Brooks' 'melodramatic mode' rather than limited to styles of documentary filmmaking alone – identifies rhetoric of authenticity in cinema and related media, even as that rhetoric was sometimes put in service to political and economic ends. The articles in this Special Issue, ‘Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode’, trace important changes in documentary film schools and movements from the 1930s onwards, sometimes in relation to other media, and the efforts of some post-war filmmakers to adapt the styles and ethical commitments that underpin documentary's "impression of authenticity" to their representation of fictional worlds 2022-01-11T13:31:11Z 2022-01-11T13:31:11Z 2021 book ONIX_20220111_9783039439133_146 9783039439133 9783039439140 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76410 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3845 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3845 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03943-914-0 10.3390/books978-3-03943-914-0 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783039439133 9783039439140 140 Basel, Switzerland open access
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Minamata disease
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Ishimure Michiko
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Minamata: The Victims and Their World
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Japanese cinema
Mizoguchi Kenji
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Shindō Kaneto
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post-1945 Japan
Hani Susumu
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direct cinema
observational documentary
cinematography
the culture film
Imamura Shōhei
History of Post-War Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
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history
memory
experience
magic lantern
popular history movement
avant-garde documentary
new Left
Teshigahara Hiroshi
Adachi Masao
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topic ethnofiction
Japan
documentary
non-fiction
dramatization
Minamata disease
Tsuchimoto Noriaki
W. Eugene Smith
Ishimure Michiko
ethics of representation
The Children of Minamata are Living
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
authorship
documentary film
hibakusha
Japanese cinema
Mizoguchi Kenji
semi-documentary
Shindō Kaneto
film theory
documentary film theory
postwar Japan
post-1945 Japan
Hani Susumu
cinéma verité
direct cinema
observational documentary
cinematography
the culture film
Imamura Shōhei
History of Post-War Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
fiction and documentary
history
memory
experience
magic lantern
popular history movement
avant-garde documentary
new Left
Teshigahara Hiroshi
Adachi Masao
subjectivity
landscapes
folklore studies
documentary photography
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thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
topic_facet ethnofiction
Japan
documentary
non-fiction
dramatization
Minamata disease
Tsuchimoto Noriaki
W. Eugene Smith
Ishimure Michiko
ethics of representation
The Children of Minamata are Living
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
authorship
documentary film
hibakusha
Japanese cinema
Mizoguchi Kenji
semi-documentary
Shindō Kaneto
film theory
documentary film theory
postwar Japan
post-1945 Japan
Hani Susumu
cinéma verité
direct cinema
observational documentary
cinematography
the culture film
Imamura Shōhei
History of Post-War Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
fiction and documentary
history
memory
experience
magic lantern
popular history movement
avant-garde documentary
new Left
Teshigahara Hiroshi
Adachi Masao
subjectivity
landscapes
folklore studies
documentary photography
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thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
url ONIX_20220111_9783039439133_146