Japanese Film and the Floating Mind
Subtitle: Cinematic Contemplations of Being
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781476664989
Subjects: Motion pictures, japan
Description: "This book provides a cultural, historical and philosophical study of Japanese film, from the silent era to the present, focusing on its expansive consciousness. It examines masterpieces by Yasujir; Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Nagisa Oshima and other directors, discussing their influence on the Japanese culture of esoteric Zen Buddhism and relating them to recent neuroscientific theories of brain trauma"--