POSTWAR JAPANESE CINEMA: HOW TO REMEMBER/FORGET THE WAR?

source:http://www.janusfilms.com/films/1293

Special Screening

Pigs and Battleships(豚と軍艦)

Dir. Imamura Shohei, 1961, 108min 

Date/Time/Venue: APRIL 17^th Monday, 4:30pm, Rm 131

WEEK 2*APRIL 21^ST  Lecture

Required Reading:

Cardullo, R. (2013). Vengeance was his: The post-war cinema of Japan’s Shohei Imamura. Asian Cinema, 24(1), 37–49. http://doi.org/10.1386/ac.24.1.37

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Desser, David. (1988). Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction To The Japanese New Wave Cinema, Bloomington: Indiana University Press:1-12 (introduction); 58-62

[download HERE; ask our TA for the PW]

NOTE: sharing period of online documents expires at the end of each month. Be quick!

Richie, Donald. (2009). “Imamura Revisited.” Film Quarterly 63 (1): 44–49.

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Film for Reference: Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker, Dir. Paulo Rocha, 1995