Cinematic Landscapes

Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan

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Edited by Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser

Type: Essays
Subject: Countries > Asia
Keywords: Japan, China, aesthetics, national cultures, movie sets
Publishing date: 2000
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Language: English

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Paperback • 365 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

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0-292-72087-4
978-0-292-72087-9

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China and Japan both have traditional art forms that have been highly developed and long studied. In these original essays, noted film and art scholars explore how the spatial consciousness, compositional techniques, and construction of images in these traditional and modern art forms also inform filmmaking in the two countries, so that film and art share the same culturally defined "methods of seeing."

This first major study of the relationship between Chinese and Japanese art and film brings together writers from the United States, Europe, Australia, China, and Japan, including Japan's well-known film critic Sato Tadao and Beijing Film Academy's Ni Zhen, screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated film Raise the Red Lantern. The essays discuss the influence of the traditional arts, including scroll painting and printmaking, on Chinese and Japanese cinema and demonstrate that national cinemas cannot be completely understood without considering their indigenous traditions.

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