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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778273403321

Autore

Nornes Markus

Titolo

Forest of pressure [[electronic resource] ] : Ogawa Shinsuke and postwar Japanese documentary / / Abé Mark Nornes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8166-9894-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Visible evidence ; ; v. 18

Disciplina

070.1/8

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-287) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 289-299.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Ogawa as Postwar Documentarist; 2 Jieiso: Ogawa's First Collectivity; 3 The Sanrizuka Series; 4 Segue: From "Sanrizuka Ogawa Pro" to "Documentary Cinema Ogawa Pro"; 5 The Magino Village Story; 6 After Ogawa; Postscript; Notes; Filmography; Distribution Resources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ogawa Productions-known in Asia as Ogawa Pro-was an influential filmmaking collective that started in the 1960's under the direction of Ogawa Shinsuke (1936-1992). Between 1968 and the mid-1970's, Ogawa Pro electrified the Japanese student movement with its Sanrizuka documentary series-eight films chronicling the massive protests over the construction of the Narita airport-which has since become the standard against which documentaries are measured in Japan. A critical biography of a collective, Forest of Pressure explores the emergence of socially committed documentary filmmaking in postwar Jap