{"product_id":"suzuki-seijun-and-postwar-japanese-cinema-9780231204378","title":"Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1968, Suzuki Seijun--a low-budget genre filmmaker known for movies including \u003ci\u003eBranded to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTokyo Drifter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eYouth of the Beast\u003c\/i\u003e--was unceremoniously fired by Nikkatsu Studios. Soon to be known as the \"Suzuki Seijun Incident,\" his dismissal became a cause for leftist student protestors and a burgeoning group of cinephiles to rally around. His films rapidly emerged as central to debates over politics and aesthetics in Japanese cinema. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam Carroll offers a new account of Suzuki's career that highlights the intersections of film theory, film production, cinephile culture, and politics in 1960s Japan. Carroll places Suzuki's work between two factions that claimed him as one of their own after 1968: the New Left and its politicized theoretical practice on one hand, and the apparently apolitical cinephiles and their formalist criticism on the other. He considers how both of these strands of film theory shed light on the distinctive qualities of Suzuki's films, and he explores how both Suzuki's works and unheralded Japanese film theorists offer new ways of understanding world cinema. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book presents both a major reinterpretation of Suzuki's work--which influenced directors such as John Woo, Jim Jarmusch, and Quentin Tarantino--and a new lens on postwar Japanese film culture and industry. \u003ci\u003eSuzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e also includes a complete production history of Suzuki's filmography along with never-before-discussed information about his unfinished film projects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Carroll is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50387221250322,"sku":"9780231204378","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_162cb11e-686d-43b7-8c2e-7081ee79e96d.jpg?v=1728873530","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/suzuki-seijun-and-postwar-japanese-cinema-9780231204378","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}