Elegy for Contestation Movement in the Images of the Floating World (“ukiyo-e”)
Abstract
This essay discusses the esthetic correspondences of Japanese new wave cinema with the iconography of premodern Japan, “pictures of the floating world” (ukiyo-e); shunga pornography and kabuki theatre. Associations between ukiyo-e and new wave cinema is exemplified on one of the most significant movies of the decade, Buraikan (1970), directed by Masahiro Shinoda. On the bases of esthetical and narrative conjunction this Japanese authors recover the cultural continuity, which seemed to be irretrievably ruptured as a result of the World War II and the nationalistic Japanese politics.
Keywords:
ukiyo-e, kabuki theatre, Japanese cinemaReferences
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520918283
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Bartosz Zająckwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Lodz Poland
Student V r. filmoznawstwa UŁ.
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