BackThe Cinema of Takeshi Kitano
Flowering Blood (book in English)
by Sean Redmond
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Director > Takeshi Kitano
- Takeshi Kitano
- Publishing Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Collection
- Directors' Cuts
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 256 pages • 15,10 €
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN
- 978-0-231-16333-0
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Book Presentation:
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's œuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. In this highly original monograph, all of Kitano's films are given due consideration, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Dolls (2002), and Outrage (2010).
Press Reviews:
An imaginatively written self-reflexive academic's journey through the films of Kitano Takeshi.
(Isolde Standish, School of Oriental and African Studies)
A bold and provocative attempt at pinning down this most mercurial and misunderstood of Japanese directors. (Jasper Sharp, Midnight Eye)
About the Author:
Sean Redmond is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia. He is the editor of Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader (2005), and co-editor of Hollywood Transgressor: the Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow (2004), Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture (2006), The Stardom and Celebrity Reader (2008), and The Star and Celebrity Confessional (2011). He is also the editor of the journal Celebrity Studies.
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