Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy
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Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy re-examines cinema studies through the work of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu, employing the multiple methodologies and indeterminacy of Ozu’s films as a model for discussions of cinema’s relationship to the world and the formation of film studies as a discipline.
Keywords
Ozu Yasujiro; Cinema; Film studies; Ethics; Dialogue; Japan; World War II; Auteurism; National cinema; Kiju Yoshida; Emmanuel Levinas; Cat; Gaze; Nonhuman; Anthropocentrism; Asian cinema; Itagaki Yoichi; Transcultural mimesis; Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere; Michael Raine; Late Spring 1949; Cinematography; Camera movement; Sense of vision; Tactility; Depth of field; Early Summer 1951; The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice 1952; Realism; Melodrama; Time; History; Postwar; Tokyo Story 1953; Color films; Red; Bleach bypass; Materiality; Floating Weeds 1959; Repetition; Habit; PostponementDOI
10.1215/9781478062073ISBN
9781478062073, 9781478062073, 9781478094586, 9781478029878, 9781478033325Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, North Carolina, USA, 2026Classification
Film: styles and genres
Media studies