by David Desser (Editor), LindaC.Ehrlich (Editor)
China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. In these original essays, noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositional techniques, and construction of images in these traditional and modern art forms also inform filmmaking in the two countries, so that film and art share the same culturally defined methods of seeing.
This first major study of the relationship between Chinese and Japanese art and film brings together writers from the United States, Europe, Australia, China, and Japan, including Japan's well-known film critic Sato Tadao and Beijing Film Academy's Ni Zhen, screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated film Raise the Red Lantern. The essays discuss the influence of the traditional arts, including scroll painting and printmaking, on Chinese and Japanese cinema and demonstrate that national cinemas cannot be completely understood without considering their indigenous traditions.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 365
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01 Dec 1994
ISBN 10: 0292720874
ISBN 13: 9780292720879
Book Overview: Explores the many links between the centuries-old graphic tradition of Japanese painting and scroll making and the more recent discipline of the cinema