A Lateral View
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A revealing look at contemporary Japanese culture.
This masterfully written collection of short essays by the acknowledged Western expert on Japanese culture and film spans thirty years and ranges broadly over subjects as diverse as the Noh theater, fashion, television, Tokyo Disneyland, language, the kiss, and, of course, film. Donald Richie's twenty-eight essays present cross-sections of Japan's enormous creative accomplishments during the nation's rise to economic and cultural power.
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Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Japan: A Description
- Japanese Shapes
- Japanese Rhythms
- Tokyo, the Impermanent Capital
- The 'Real' Disneyland
- The City Home
- Walking in Tokyo
- The Kapital of Kitsch
- Tokyo Style
- Gesture as Language
- Signs and Symbols
- A Vocabulary of Taste
- The Tongue of Fashion
- Notes on the Noh
- The Kyogen
- Japan's Avant-garde Theater
- The Strata of Japanese Drama
- Women in Japanese Cinema
- The Japanese Eroduction
- A Definition of the Japanese Film
- Attitudes toward Tokyo on Film
- New Ways of Viewing
- TV: The Presentational Image
- Mizushobai: The Art of Pleasing
- The Japanese Kiss
- Pachinko
- Walkman, Manga and Society
- The State of the Arts
