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About this book
In Japanese Cinema and Punk, Mark Player examines how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese filmmakers during a period of crisis and change in Japan's film industry.
Drawing on rare materials and first-hand interviews with key figures from the jishu eiga (self-made film)
tradition, including Ishii Gakuryu (formerly Ishii Sogo), Yamamoto Masashi, Tsukamoto Shin'ya, and Fukui Shozin, Player explores how punk's bricolage style was leveraged to create exciting intermedial film aesthetics. These aesthetics were influenced by rock music, graffiti art, street performance, handmade animation, television, and other mass media.
By considering the practical, phenomenological, and political ramifications of combining diverse media elements, Player offers in-depth analyses of films such as Burst City (1982), Robinson's Garden (1987), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), and more. He further traces the changing sociocultural position of Japan's punk generation throughout the 1980s-from its euphoric early-80s peak to the growing disillusionment caused by its mainstream co-optation and convergence.
Drawing on rare materials and first-hand interviews with key figures from the jishu eiga (self-made film)
tradition, including Ishii Gakuryu (formerly Ishii Sogo), Yamamoto Masashi, Tsukamoto Shin'ya, and Fukui Shozin, Player explores how punk's bricolage style was leveraged to create exciting intermedial film aesthetics. These aesthetics were influenced by rock music, graffiti art, street performance, handmade animation, television, and other mass media.
By considering the practical, phenomenological, and political ramifications of combining diverse media elements, Player offers in-depth analyses of films such as Burst City (1982), Robinson's Garden (1987), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), and more. He further traces the changing sociocultural position of Japan's punk generation throughout the 1980s-from its euphoric early-80s peak to the growing disillusionment caused by its mainstream co-optation and convergence.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Japanese Text and Translation
- Introduction: Anarchy in Japan
- Chapter 1: Apathy and Atrophy: The emergence of Japan’s punk generation
- Chapter 2: Synergies and Analogues: Exchanges between self-made film and punk
- Chapter 3: Liberation and Capitulation: Burst City and the politics of musicality
- Chapter 4: Placemaking and Resistance: The competing mediascapes of Robinson’s Garden
- Chapter 5: Assimilation and Synthesis: Tetsuo: The Iron Man and the intermedial (cyber)punk body
- Chapter 6: Space and Feeling: The explosive sound of Pinocchio 964
- Notes
- References
- Works Cited
- Index