Nagisa Oshima is generally regarded as the most important Japanese film director after Kurosawa and is one of Japan's most productive and celebrated postwar artists. His early films represent the Japanese New Wave at its zenith, and the films he has made since have won international acclaim. The more than 40 writings that make up this intellectual autobiography reveal a conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. They trace in vivid and carefully articulated detail the development of Oshima's theory and practice.
Language
English
Pages
308
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
MIT Press (MA)
Release
July 01, 1992
ISBN
0262150409
ISBN 13
9780262150408
Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978
Nagisa Oshima is generally regarded as the most important Japanese film director after Kurosawa and is one of Japan's most productive and celebrated postwar artists. His early films represent the Japanese New Wave at its zenith, and the films he has made since have won international acclaim. The more than 40 writings that make up this intellectual autobiography reveal a conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. They trace in vivid and carefully articulated detail the development of Oshima's theory and practice.