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Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist The Films of Suzuki Seijun

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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...

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Main Author: Yacavone, Peter A. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2023
Series:Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies 99
Subjects:
Society & culture: general
Media studies
Suzuki Seijun, Nikkatsu, yakuza, 1960s cinema, film theory, diegesis, diegetic, classical cinema, studio system, exploitation, Japanese film, gangster movies, popular genre, aesthetics, global cinema, Japanese cinema, post-war cinema, negation, auterism, auteur, film director, New Left, New Wave, cult film, genre film, prostitution, Japanese New Wave, nuberu bagu, hard-boiled, film noir, Classical Hollywood cinema, film and philosophy, film and philsoophy, avant-garde cinema
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