Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- A Single Man (1)
- BFI (1)
- Cinema (1)
- Derek Prouse (1)
- Dilys Powell (1)
-
- Donald Richie (1)
- Earl Miner (1)
- Film (1)
- Hollywood Cinema (1)
- Japan (1)
- Japanese (1)
- Japanese Aesthetics (1)
- John Gillett (1)
- Kashiko Kawakita (1)
- Leslie Hardcastle (1)
- London Film Festival (1)
- Mono no Aware (1)
- Nagamasa Kawakita (1)
- Pathos (1)
- Postwar (1)
- Shiro Kido (1)
- Shochiku (1)
- Shomingeki Genre (1)
- Soft Power (1)
- Sutherland Prize (1)
- Tadao Sato (1)
- Their First Trip to Tokyo (1)
- Tokyo Monogatari (1)
- Tokyo Story (1)
- Yasujirō Ozu (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Pathetic Beauty: Mono No Aware In Hollywood Cinema –To Family And Friends In These Estranged Times–, Aaron Francis Ward
Pathetic Beauty: Mono No Aware In Hollywood Cinema –To Family And Friends In These Estranged Times–, Aaron Francis Ward
Japanese Society and Culture
Mono no aware is considered to be one of the central-most Japanese aesthetics and distinctive to Japanese identity (Keene 1995; Miller 2011). This aesthetic standpoint finds wistful beauty in the transient, and is most often translated to ‘beauty in pathos’ or ‘the ah-ness of things’ (Hume 1995), as exemplified in the Heian-era classic, The Tale of Genji (Murasaki 1981). To the outside world, mono no aware is most commonly associated with cherry-blossom viewing, where the short-lived existence of the falling cherry blossom is seen as a metonym for contemplation of the beauty in the transience of life itself. Although this …
Influential Storytelling At Its Finest: Why The Postwar West Took Notice Of Yasujirō Ozu’S Tokyo Story, Abigail Deveney
Influential Storytelling At Its Finest: Why The Postwar West Took Notice Of Yasujirō Ozu’S Tokyo Story, Abigail Deveney
Japanese Society and Culture
Tokyo Story (1953) came to fame in 1958, when Yasujiro Ozu’s postwar film about a fragmenting family won the Sutherland prize at the London Film Festival – or so cinematic scholarship suggests. There is, however, a much more complex tale to be told. In fact, director Ozu’s shomingeki-genre film was being discussed and promoted internationally long before what is considered that watershed moment.
This dissertation explores why the western world took note. It argues that Tokyo Story’s nuanced and humanist narrative was a unique form of soft power, attracting and persuading decades before that concept was formally articulated. Tokyo Story’s …