Ozu
and the Poetics of Cinema consists of two parts.
The first provides overviews of Ozus career
from several different angles. It looks at his
biography, his place in the Japanese film industry,
his methods of storytelling, his use of film techniques,
and his films social and ideological implications,
all the while trying to illustrate how an approach
grounded in poetics can help us understand him
in ways different from earlier accounts. The second
part discusses each film singly, taking up one
or two issues raised by the movie but also trying
to pick up and develop strands stated in the first
part.
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