Third Thursday Lecture: From Manga to Movies: Art in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
21 June 2012, Norwich
Dr Rayna Denison Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia Venue: Norwich Cathedral Hostry (Weston Room), Norwich NR1 4EH
ABOUT THE LECTURE Japanese cinema offers one of the world’s most well-developed and longstanding traditions of art cinema. From the explosion of Japanese cinema on the global film festival scene in the 1950s, Japanese films have been considered among the greatest films in world cinema. However, more recently it has been Japan’s popular cinema that has intrigued audiences and scholars alike, with the rise of J-horror and anime providing new avenues for conceptualising Japanese cinema. This talk asks a simple question: where is art in Japanese cinema now? In doing so, it runs that gamut of contemporary Japanese filmmaking examining the high and popular art forms used to inspire Japanese films. From popular manga source materials made into art cinema, from Superflat art to anime, this talk seeks to question how we imagine the relationship between art and film in Japan, opening up a range of new possibilities for seeing movies (and the manga on which they are based) in relation to earlier artist traditions in Japanese filmmaking.
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ENTRY CANNOT BE GUARANTEED AFTER 6.00PM. We regret that there is no parking available in The Close.
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