Cinematic Landscapes

Linda C. Ehrlich is Associate Professor of Japanese, Comparative Literature, and Cinema at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. David Desser is Professor of Cinema Studies and Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This brilliant and sumptuous volume . . . demonstrates that we have only scratched the surface in Western discussions of Chinese and Japanese film. Beautifully and profusely illustrated, lovingly indexed, and absolutely immersed in the culture it examines, Cinematic Landscapes is entirely successful in exploring the many links between the centuries-old graphic tradition of Japanese painting and scroll making and the more recent discipline of the cinema. . . . Cinematic Landscapes pushes Western knowledge of Asian cinema many steps forward and persuasively serves as a model for future inquiry in this area of study. (Journal of Film and Video) Not only will specialists in Asian film benefit from this book, but many scholars working in Asian regional studies, Asian art and literature, as well as film history and criticism undoubtedly will find this anthology of interest. It is valuable as a textbook in courses on art and the cinema, Asian cinema, or film form and aesthetics. The work makes an important contribution to Asian film and art scholarship. (Journal of Asian Studies) An elegant volume whose luxury factor approaches the coffee-table book and whose superlative essays guarantee that the reader will not watch these films the same way again. (Film Quarterly)

• Acknowledgments Introductory Remarks Editors' Introduction Table: Major Historical Periods 1. Contrasts in Chinese and Japanese Art (Sherman Lee) Part One Film and the Visual Arts in China: An Introduction (Douglas Wilkerson) 2. Chinese Visual Representation: Painting and Cinema (Hǎo DÀzhēng) 3. Classical Chinese Painting and Cinematographic Signification (NÍ ZhÈn) 4. Post-Socialist Strategies: An Analysis of Yellow Earth and Black Cannon Incident (Chris Berry and Mary Ann Farquhar) 5. The Pain of a Half Taoist: Taoist Principles, Chinese Landscape Painting, and King of the Children (Ān Jǐngfū) 6. Judou: An Experiment in Color and Portraiture in Chinese Cinema (Jenny Kwok Wah Lau) Part Two Film and the Visual Arts in Japan: An Introduction (Thomas Rimer) 7. The Influence of Traditional Aesthetics on the Japanese Film (Donald Richie) 8. Japanese Cinema and the Traditional Arts: Imagery, Technique, and Cultural Context (Satō Tadao) 9. Genroku chūshingura and the Primacy of Perception (D. William Davis) 10. Ways of Seeing Japanese Prints and Films: Mizoguchi's Utamaro (Dudley Andrew) 11. Kobayashi's Widescreen Aesthetic (Cynthia Contreras) 12. Playing with Form: Ichikawa's An Actor's Revenge and the "Creative Print" (Linda C. Ehrlich) 13. Playing with Space: Ozu and Two-Dimensional Design in Japan (Kathe Geist) 14. Gate of Flesh(tones): Color in the Japanese Cinema (David Desser) Filmography Selected Works Notes on Contributors Index