Selected Bibliography: Film and Photography

items in green are in the course reader
items in brown are on reserve
items in purple are student additions to the bibliography
book icon indicates a link to a student annotation

 

I. General

Anderson, Joseph L. and Donald Richie. The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. Expanded edition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1982.

Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. Film Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Burch, Noel. To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Author Unknown. Cinemaniac. Middle Tennessee State University. January 11, 2000.
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~jpurcell/Cinemaniac/cinema.html

Davis, Darrell William. Picturing Japaneseness. New York: Columbia UP, 1996.

Ehrich, Linda C. and Desser, David. Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan. Austin, Tex: University of Texas Press, 1994.

Galbraith, Stuart. The Japanese filmography : a complete reference to 209 filmmakers and the over 1250 films released in the United States, 1900 through 1994. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 1996.

Japanese Cinema Studies Home Page. "Japanese Film: A Tribute." (Includes a Japanese Cinema Studies Glossary of Terms).
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/rr10/film.html

Japanese Film: Resources. Web page for with extensive resource links, for JA216 Japanese Film Course at Middlebury College.
http://cweb.middlebury.edu/f00/ja237a/resources/index.html

"Japan on Film: Guide to Japanese Film Prints." The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. (Includes information on Japanese films by title).
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/films/index.html

McDonald, Keiko. Cinema East: A Critical Study of Major Japanese Films. New Brunswick, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1983.

-------. Japanese Classical Theater in Films. New Brunswick, N.J.: Associated University Presses, Inc. 1994.

Morris, Garry and Battle, Gregory. "The Bright Light Film Journal."
January 16, 2000. www.brightlightsfilm.com/japan.html

Nornes, Abe Mark, manager and co-owner; Maureen Donovan and Aaron Gerow, co-owners. Kineclub home page.
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html

Richie, Donald. Japanese Cinema: An Introduction. New York: Oxford UP, 1990.

Shilling, Mark. Contemporary Japanese Cinema. New York: Weatherhill, 1999.

Tanaka, Shigeru. "The Whistling River."
January 16, 2000.
www.cs.uiowa.edu/~stanaka/j.html

 

II. Souvenir Photography

Bakumatsu Nihon no fukei to hitobito: Ferikkusu Beato shashinshû. Tokyo: Asahi Shoten, 1987.

A web article by Terry Bennett
& Sebastian Dobson, 1997.
http://www.old-japan.co.uk/sentaro.article.html

Blight, Richard. "Images of Nineteenth-Century Japan." Orientations. 12.2 (February 1981) 23-33.

Handy, Ellen. "Japonisme and American Postcard Visions of Japan: Beauties and Workers, Cherry Blossoms and Silkworms." Delivering Views: Distant Cultures in Early Postcards. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.


Japan Photographers Association. A Century of Japanese Photography. Introduction by John Dower. London and New York: Huchinson/Random House 1980.

Japanese Old Photos in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period. Website created by Nagasaki University Library. Includes database of photographs which can be searched by subject.
http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/unive/

Leggat, Robert. A History of Photography from its Beginnings till the 1920s. January 11, 2000.
http://host1.kbnet.co.uk/rleggat/photo/index.html

A web article by Annabelle Simon, 1998.
http://www.old-japan.co.uk/simon.html

University of California, Riverside and the California Museum of Photography. "Japan, Hand-colored Photographs, ca. 1880."
http://cmpl.ucr.edu/exhibitions/asia/japan/japan_intro.html

Winkel, Margarita. "The Image of Japan in the West" and "Souvenir Photography." Souvenirs from Japan: Japanese Photography at the turn of the century(London: Bamboo Publishing Ltd, 1991) 17-20, 27-32.

Worswick, Clark, ed. Japan: Photographs 1854-1905. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

 

III. Early Cinema

Anderson, J.L. Spoken Silents in the Japanese Cinema; or, Talking to Pictures: Essaying the Katsuben, Contexturalizing the Texts." Reframing Japanese Cinema Ed. by Aurthur Noletti and Davud Desser. Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992. 259-310.

Chanan, Michael. "Economic Conditions of Early Cinema." Early Cinema: Space, France, Narrative. London: British Film Institute, 1990.

Elsaesser, Thomas with Adam Barker, eds. Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative. London: BFI Pub, 1990.

Hattori, Bunshô. "The Western Peep Show." Modern Japanese Literature, an anthology. Donald Keene, trans. and ed. New York: Grove Press, 1956.

Komatsu, Hiroshi. "Some Characteristics of Japanese Cinema Before World War I." Reframing Japanese Cinema Ed. by Aurthur Noletti and Davud Desser. Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992. 229-258.

Matsudae Film Productions. (Web site on Japanese silent cinema).
http://www.infoasia.co.jp/subdir/matsudae.html

IV. Ozu and Mizoguchi

Andrew, Dudley and Paul Andrew. Kenji Mizoguchi: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981.

Bordwell, David. "Materials" and "Towards Instrinsic Norms." In Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988. 31-50, 73-108.

-------. "Mizoguchi and the Evolution of Film Language" from Cinema and Language (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1983) 107-117.

"From Behind the Camera." (Ozu Yasujiro website). University of Tokyo Digital Museum.
http://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dm2k-umdb/publish_db/books/ozu/english/contents.html

Japanese Film: Resources: Mizoguchi. Resource list for JA216 Japanese Film course at Middlebury College.
http://cweb.middlebury.edu/f00/ja237a/resources/mizoguchi/index.html

Japanese Film: Resources: Ozu. Resource list for JA216 Japanese Film course at Middlebury College.
http://cweb.middlebury.edu/f00/ja237a/resources/ozu/index.html

Kirihara, Don. "Kabuki, Cinema, and Mizoguchi Kenji" from Cinema and Language (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1983) 97-106. CR

Kirihara, Donald. Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930’s. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

McDonald, Keiko. Mizoguchi. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984.

Nomes, Abe Mark. "Ozu & Hou" Part of a University of California, Berkeley website.
http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/Papers/CityOfSadness/ozu.html

Richie, Donald. Ozu. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Schrader, Paul. Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Thompson, Rustin. "Beauty beneath the Brutality: Japanese Masters Mizoguchi and Ozu." A part of movie maker website.
http://www.moviemaker.com/issues/31/homecinema/31_homecinema.html

Yamaoka, Rie. "Ozu Yasujiro’s Cinematic Style." ‘Teaching’ section of Kineclub website.
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/teaching.html

 

V. On-line reference

The Internet Movie Database. (Database includes over 4500 Japan-related items).
http://us.imdb.com

Japanese Movie Database. (Japanese language only).
http://jmdb.club.ne.jp/

Students of Kyoto Sangyo University. "Famous Personages in Japan." (Includes information on contepmorary Japanese film and TV actors).
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/famous/

University of Iowa Libraries. "Japanese Books on Japanese Cinema at the University of Iowa."
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/eac/author.html

-------. "Japanese Film Journal Table of Contents Browser."
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/eac/TOC/index.htm

 

 

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