Cinematic landscapes : observations on the visual arts and cinema of China and Japan

Contents Introductory Remarks Editor's Introduction Table: Major Historical Periods PART ONE Film and the Visual Arts in China: Introduction Douglas Wilkerson Chinese Visual Representation: Painting and Cinema Hao Dazheng Classical Chinese Painting and Cinematographic Signification Ni Zhen Post-Socialist Strategies: Analysis of Yellow Earth and Black Cannon Incident Chris Berry and Mary Ann Farquhar The Pain of a Half Taoist: Toaist Principles, Chinese Landscape Painting and King of Children Jingfu Judou Experiment in Colour and Portraiture in Chinese Cinema Jenny Kwok Wah Lau PART TWO Film and the Visual Arts in Japan: Introduction Thomas Rimer The Influence of Traditional Aesthetics on the Japanese Film Donald Richie Japanese Cinema and the Traditional Arts Imagery Technique, and Cultural Context Sato Tadao Genroku chushingura and the Primacy of Perception D William Davies Ways of seeing Japanese Prints and Films: Mizoguchi's Utamaro Dudley Andrew Kobayashi's Widescreen Aesthetic Cynthia Contreras Playing with Form: Ichikawa's An Actor's Revenge and the 'Creative Print' Linda C Erlich Playing with Space: Ozu and Two-Dimensional Design in Japan Kathe Geist Gate of Flesh(tones): Colour in the Japanese Cinema David Desser Filmography Selected Works Notes on Contributors Index