Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist

Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9780472903474
ISBN-13 : 0472903470
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Book Synopsis Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist by : Peter A. Yacavone

Download or read book Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist written by Peter A. Yacavone and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s, Suzuki Seijun was an unknown, anxious low-ranking film director churning out so-called program pictures for Japan’s most successful movie studio, Nikkatsu. In the early 1960s, he met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild exploitation films featuring prostitutes and teenage rebels. In this book, Peter A. Yacavone argues that Suzuki became an unlikely cinematic rebel and, with hindsight, one of the most important voices in the global cinema of the 1960s. Working from within the studio system, Suzuki almost single-handedly rejected the restrictive filmmaking norms of the postwar period and expanded the form and language of popular cinema. This artistic rebellion proved costly when Suzuki was fired in 1967 and virtually blacklisted by the studios, but Suzuki returned triumphantly to the scene of world cinema in the 1980s and 1990s with a series of critically celebrated, avant-garde tales of the supernatural and the uncanny. This book provides a well-informed, philosophically oriented analysis of Suzuki’s 49 feature films.


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