Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy by Miyao, Daisuke

Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478029878)

Vendor: Daisuke Miyao
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Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy by Miyao, Daisuke

Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy

$119.95
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy by Miyao, Daisuke

Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy

$119.95
Format: Hardcover
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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. Centering a selection of Ozu films in each chapter, Daisuke Miyao builds a method based on the way films directed by Ozu avoid unitary perspective and allow multiple possibilities of standpoint and spectatorial position, which Miyao calls the ethics of indeterminacy. Analyzing Ozu's use of cinematography, narrative, and color, Miyao theorizes the indeterminate in film--the seen and unseen, human and nonhuman, domestic and international--to initiate a multi-directional dialogue on the study of cinema that reaches beyond auteurism and culturalism to establish a new basis for disciplinary conversations.

Author: Daisuke Miyao
ISBN-10: 1478029870
ISBN-13: 9781478029878
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2026
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
By Daisuke Miyao
By Daisuke Miyao
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Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author and editor of several books, including Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema, and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, published by Duke University Press.

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