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Title:

FROM BOOK TO SCREEN
MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE IN FILMS

By:

Keiko I. McDonald

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0765603888

ISBN 13:

9780765603883

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Pub. date:

29 December, 1999

Pages:

344

Description:

This study explores the connections between Japan's modern literary tradition and its national cinema. The first part offers a historical and cultural overview of the working relationship that developed between pure literature and film. The second analyzes 12 literary works and their adaptions.

Synopsis:

Of all the world s cinemas, Japan's is perhaps unique in its closeness to the nation's literature, past and contemporary. The Western world became aware of this when Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice film festival in 1951 and the Oscar for best foreign film in 1952. More recent examples include Shohei Imamura's Eel, which won the Palm d'Or (Best Picture) at Cannes in 1997.From Book to Screen breaks new ground by exploring important connections between Japan's modern literary tradition and its national cinema. The first part offers an historical and cultural overview of the working relationship that developed between pure literature and film. It deals with three important periods in which filmmakers relied most heavily on literary works for enriching and developing cinematic art. The second part provides detailed analyses of a dozen literary works and their screen adoptions.

Illustrations:

photographs, bibliography, index

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Imprint:

M.E. Sharpe

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