The textual system of Au hasard Balthazar

170 leaves ; 29 cm

The films of Oshima Nagisa: images of a Japanese iconoclast

This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is both an essential introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. For almost forty years, Oshima has produced provocative films that have received wide distribution and international acclaim. Formally innovative as well as socially daring, they provide a running commentary, direct and indirect, on the cultural and political tensions of postwar Japan. Best known today for his controversial films In the Realm of the Senses and The Empire of Passion , Oshima engages issues of sexuality and power, domination and identity, which Maureen Turim explores in relation to psychoanalytic and postmodern theory. The films' complex representation of women in Japanese society receives detailed and careful scrutiny, as does their political engagement with the Japanese student movement, postwar anti-American sentiments, and critiques of Stalinist tendencies of the Left. Turim also considers Oshima's surprising comedies, his experimentation with Brechtian and avant-garde theatricality as well as reflexive textuality, and his essayist documentaries in this look at an artist's gifted and vital attempt to put his will on film

Les Lieux de Vidéo : International Video Art Exhibition

In essays discussing themes of video art through specific works, Fargier aligns video with television rather than film, presenting it as a medium of the voice; Steininger explores the precarious status of the "documentary gesture" in video; Gagnon discusses irony and the distinction between fiction and feint; and Turim examines the presentation of works of non-video art in video. Includes a statement on United Medium Arts Studies (UMAS). 19 bibl. ref