Week 6★May 29th TOWARD FIRST-PERSON DOCUMENTARY: THE JAPANESE CASE STUDIES (Discussion)

Homework Screening:

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974・極私的エロス 恋歌1974 (1974)

Dir. HARA Kazuo・原一男

&

Katatsumori・かたつもり(1994)

Dir. KAWASE Naomi・河瀨直美

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBnrtIPfPCc]

Required Reading

Nornes, Abé Markus. (2003). “Private Reality: Hara Kazuo’s Films”, in Ivone Margulies (ed.), Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema, Duke University Press.

I think we will mention Kawase too, in relation to the Nornes essay.

Reference Reading

Anderson, J. (2020). Home birth, world cinema: Kawase Naomi's films in circulation. Studies in Documentary Film: Feminist Approaches in Women's First Person Documentaries from East Asia. Guest Editors: Kiki Tianqi Yu & Alisa Lebow, 14(1), 50-62.

Nornes, Abé Markus. (2002). “The Postwar Documentary Trace: Groping in the Dark”. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique. 10 (1): 39-78.
NOTE: the issue of subjectivity in relation to postwar Japanese documentary.