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Syllabus
ID/JA 085 Japanese Visual Culture
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Distribution requirement credits: ART
Cultures/civilizations credit: OTH
Instructor’s name: William
Gardner
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the course.
W 1/5 Introduction: Japanese visual culture
Readings:
1. Ian Buruma, "Work as a Form of Beauty," from Tokyo: Form and Spirit
2. Lisa Dalby, "The Parameters of Play," from Tokyo: Form and
Spirit
3. Mara Miller, "Art and the Construction of Self and Subject in
Japan" in Roger T. Ames, ed. Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice
Th 1/6 Introduction: thinking and writing about the visual
Readings:
1. from Nicholas Mirzoff, Introduction to Visual Culture
2. Susan Sontag, "In Plato’s Cave" from On Photography
3. Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" in Philip
Rosen, ed., Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader
M 1/10 Edo: the floating world-- picture and text
Readings:
1. Stephen Addiss, "Woodblock Prints" from How to View
Japanese Art
2. Donald Jenkins, "Introduction" to The Floating World Revisited
3. Tadashi Kobayashi, "Mitate-e in the Art of Ukiyo-e Artist Suzuki
Harunobu" from The Floating World Revisited
Tu 1/11 Edo: Kabuki visuality
Readings:
1. Donald H. Shively, "The Social Environment of Tokugawa Kabuki" from
Studies in Kabuki: Its Acting, Music, and Historical Context
In-class screening: The Art of Kabuki
W 1/12 Edo: vision, technology, and the West
Readings:
1. Timon Screech, "The ‘Batavian Temperament’ and its Critics"
from The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo
Japan
Th 1/13 Film and photography: the early years
Readings:
1. Margarita Winkel, "The Image of Japan in the West" and "Souvenir
Photography" from Souvenirs from Japan: Japanese Photography at the
turn of the century
2. Komatsu Hiroshi, "Some Characteristics of Japanese Cinema Before
World War I," from Noletti and Desser, eds, Reframing Japanese Cinema
M 1/17 Film and Photography: Ozu Yasujirô
Reading
1. David Bordwell, "Materials" and "Towards Instrinsic Norms" in Ozu
and the Poetics of Cinema
Screening: Ozu Yasujirô, I Was Born,
But. . .(1932)
Annotated bibliographies (hard copy) due. Paper
proposals due.
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bibliography assignment.
Tu 1/18 Film and Photography: Mizoguchi Kenji
Readings:
1. David Bordwell, "Mizoguchi and the Evolution of Film Language" from
Cinema and Language
2. Don Kirihara, "Kabuki, Cinema, and Mizoguchi Kenji" from Cinema
and Language
Screening: Mizoguchi Kenji, The Story of
the Last Chrysanthemum(1939)
W 1/19 Postwar Culture: the war, its aftermath, and American occupation
Readings:
1. Donald Richie, , "The Occupied Arts" from The Confusion Era: Art
and Culture of Japan during the Occupation, 1945-52
2. Tsurumi Shunsuke, "Occupation: the American Way of Life as an Imposed
Model" and "Legends of Common Culture" from A Cultural History of
Postwar Japan 1945-1980
3. Stephen Prince, "Willpower Can Cure All Human Ailments" from
The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
Screening: Kurosawa Akira, Stray Dog(1949)
Th 1/20 Postwar Culture: the Japanese counterculture and the graphic
design of Yokoo Tadanori
Readings:
1. Maggie Kinser Saiki, "Yokoo Tadanori: Mother Nature’s Son,"
Graphis 315
2. Alexandra Monroe, "Revolt of the Flesh: Ankoku Butoh and Obsessional
Art" from Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky
M 1/24 manga and anime
Readings:
1. Charles J. Quinn, Jr. "High Metabolism: Manga Circa Shôwa 50"
2. Takahashi Rumiko, Ranma 1/2
Papers drafts due (hard copy).
Tu 1/25 manga and anime
Readings:
1. Antonia Levi, "The Birth of the American Otaku" from Samurai from
Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation
2. Mary Grigsby, "Sailormoon: Manga (comics) and anime (cartoon)
superheroine meets Barbie: Global entertainment commodity comes to the
United States"
W 1/26 manga and anime
Readings:
1. Isolde Standish, "Akira, Postmodernism and Resistance," from D. P.
Martinez, ed., The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture
2. Susan J. Napier, "Vampires, Psychic Girls, Flying Women and Sailor
Scouts: Four faces of the young Japanese female in Japanese Popular
Culture" from D. P. Martinez, ed., The Worlds of Japanese Popular
Culture
Screening: Oshii Mamoru, Ghost in the Shell
(1995)
Th 1/27 summary/web development
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