Among Asian countries--where until recently documentary filmmaking was largely the domain of central governments--Japan was exceptional for the vigor of its nonfiction film industry. And yet, for all its aesthetic, historical, and political interest, the Japanese documentary remains little known and largely unstudied outside of Japan. This is the first English-language study of the subject, an enlightening close look at the first fifty years of documentary film theory and practice in Japan. Beginning with films made by foreigners in the nineteenth century and concluding with the first two...
Among Asian countries--where until recently documentary filmmaking was largely the domain of central governments--Japan was exceptional for the vigor ...
"Extraordinarily valuable, illuminating, and even entertaining, Forest of Pressure brims with the types of information that only a key insider can get his hands on." --Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, New York University
Ogawa Productions--known in Asia as Ogawa Pro--was an influential filmmaking collective that started in the 1960s under the direction of Ogawa Shinsuke (1936-1992). Between 1968 and the mid-1970s, Ogawa Pro electrified the Japanese student movement with its Sanrizuka documentary series--eight films chronicling the massive protests over the construction of the Narita...
"Extraordinarily valuable, illuminating, and even entertaining, Forest of Pressure brims with the types of information that only a key insider ...
"Extraordinarily valuable, illuminating, and even entertaining, Forest of Pressure brims with the types of information that only a key insider can get his hands on." --Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, New York University
Ogawa Productions--known in Asia as Ogawa Pro--was an influential filmmaking collective that started in the 1960s under the direction of Ogawa Shinsuke (1936-1992). Between 1968 and the mid-1970s, Ogawa Pro electrified the Japanese student movement with its Sanrizuka documentary series--eight films chronicling the massive protests over the construction of the Narita...
"Extraordinarily valuable, illuminating, and even entertaining, Forest of Pressure brims with the types of information that only a key insider ...
The original foreign film--its sights and sounds--is available to all, but the viewer is utterly dependent on a translator and an untold number of technicians who produce the graphic text or disconnected speech through which we must approach the foreign film. A bad translation can ruin a film's beauty, muddy its plot, and turn any joke sour.
In this wide-ranging work, Abe Mark Nornes examines the relationships between moving-image media and translation and contends that film was a globalized medium from its beginning and that its transnational traffic has been greatly...
The original foreign film--its sights and sounds--is available to all, but the viewer is utterly dependent on a translator and an untold number of ...
