21F.065 / 21F.593 Japanese Literature and Cinema, Spring 2006
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Author(s)
Condry, Ian
Alternative Title
Japanese Literature and Cinema
Date Issued
June 2006
Abstract
This course includes surveys for both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such as the classical era, the samurai age, wartime Japan and the atomic bombings, social change in the postwar period, and the appropriation of foreign cultural themes, with an emphasis on the modern period. The directors include Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Teshigahara. The authors include Kobo Abe and Yukio Mishima. The films are shown with subtitles in English. The course is taught in English.
Subjects
japanese aesthetics
suicide
pressure of daily life
gender
sexuality
contemporary japan
traditional japan
anime
surrealism
false realism
the absurd
humor
japan
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
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