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dc.contributor.authorParks, Tyler
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-16T14:30:00Z
dc.date.available2020-04-16T14:30:00Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-27
dc.identifier.citationParks , T 2016 , ' Change, horizon, and event in Ozu's Late Spring (1949) ' , Film-Philosophy , vol. 20 , no. 2-3 , pp. 283-302 . https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2016.0016en
dc.identifier.issn1466-4615
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 260352466
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: eb30593c-f9b3-4629-b9d4-866f37e1927a
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85118782465
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10023/19815
dc.description.abstractOver the decades, the films of Yasujirō Ozu have inspired a number of contradictory responses from film critics and theorists. Initially, formal aspects of his work, which Western commentators found difficult to comprehend in relation to the thematic dimensions of the films, were often said to reflect aesthetic and philosophical principles associated with Zen Buddhism. Like the recurrence of plots that explore the transformations of the Japanese family, many formal attributes of Ozu's films were assumed to express various ideas related to traditional Japanese values. In their work on Ozu, Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell do an admirable job of debunking many clichés and misconceptions about the relationship of Ozu's work to Zen philosophy, aesthetics, and social conventions. Undoubtedly though, a metaphysical outlook emerges in Ozu's work that is neither wholly conditioned by the socialised norms of Zen and tradition, nor entirely free of them. This paper considers and analyses a claim made by Gilles Deleuze about the metaphysical orientation of Ozu's work, one which ascribes aspects of Ozu's style to a Zen conception of time. This particular argument concerns Ozu's famous still lifes, and it is my contention that through considering some aspects of Deleuze's reading of Ozu alongside Bordwell, Thompson, and Noël Burch's writing on the director, we can see what is asked of us by a film like Ozu's Late Spring (Banshun, 1949), which offers us an opportunity to rethink the relations between cinematic form, narrative, and emotion.
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.rightsCopyright © 2016 Tyler Parks. The online version of this article is published as Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction provided the original work is cited. For commercialre-use, please refer to our website at: www.euppublishing.com/customer-services/authors/permissionsen
dc.subjectOzuen
dc.subjectDeleuzeen
dc.subjectBordwelen
dc.subjectBurchen
dc.subjectThompsonen
dc.subjectPN1993 Motion Picturesen
dc.subject.lccPN1993en
dc.titleChange, horizon, and event in Ozu's Late Spring (1949)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Film Studiesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3366/film.2016.0016
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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