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顔力を上げるTAKAKOの大人ガーリーメイク

Autor: ＴＡＫＡＫＯ , 花田景子

Número de Páginas: 101

The Hong Kong Letters

Autor: Gill Shaddick

Número de Páginas: 293

In the late sixties when the Beatles are top of the charts and Twiggy is hitting the catwalk, Gill embarks on a life-changing journey to Hong Kong. Mao’s revolution is at its height. Vietnam has become America’s longest war with no end in sight. But it’s at an ad agency under insane direction where Gill finds her battles and learns to stand her ground. In this spirited memoir, where Mad Men meets Han Suyin’s A Many-Splendoured Thing, Gill recreates a Hong Kong of the imagination. Attractive and naïve, wined and dined by Hong Kong’s elite, she gravitates towards camaraderie outside the world of advertising and money, and adventure follows. A weekend sail goes awry when a yacht with her on board strays into the waters of Communist China. A full-scale sea and air search mounted from Hong Kong can find no trace. Yet Gill is very much alive. With her friends, she is reciting from Mao’s Little Red Book with no idea what fate awaits her or how long she will be held. The Hong Kong Letters is part memoir, part travelogue. Gill introduces us to characters that fiction couldn’t have invented any better and transports the reader to another time and place, a reminder that anyone ...

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films

Autor: Salvador Jiménez Murguía

Número de Páginas: 423

Although the horror genre has been embraced by filmmakers around the world, Japan has been one of the most prolific and successful purveyors of such films. From science fiction terrors of the 1950s like Godzilla toviolentfilms like Suicide Circle and Ichi the Killer, Japanese horror film has a diverse history. While the quality of some of these films has varied, others have been major hits in Japan and beyond, frightening moviegoers around the globe. Many of these films—such as the Ringu movies—have influenced other horror productions in both Asia and the United States. The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films covers virtually every horror film made in Japan from the past century to date. In addition to major and modest productions, this encyclopedia also features entries on notable directors, producers, and actors. Each film entry includes comprehensive details, situates the film in the context and history of Japanese horror cinema, and provides brief suggestions for further reading. Although emphasizing horror as a general theme, this encyclopedia also encompasses other genres that are associated with this theme, including Comedy Horror, Science Fiction Horror, Cyber-punk...

Reel Bay

Autor: Jana Larson

Número de Páginas: 291

What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank at the end of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there: unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor shower, a far-flung search for purpose? The seed of an obsession took root in struggling film student Jana Larson when she chanced upon a news bulletin about the case. Over the years and across continents, the material Jana gathered in her search for the real Takako outgrew multiple attempts at screenplays and became this remarkable, genre-bending essay that leans into the space between fact and fiction, life and death, author and subject, reality and delusion.

The Cinema of Tsui Hark

Autor: Lisa Morton

Número de Páginas: 257

Tsui Hark, one of China's most famous film artists, is little known outside of Asia even though he has directed, produced, written, or acted in dozens of film, some of which are considered to be classics of modern Asian cinema. This work begins with a biography of the man and a look at his place in Hong Kong and world cinema, his influences, and his thematic obsessions. Each major film of his career is then reviewed, production details are provided, and comments from Tsui Hark himself are given.

School to Work Transition in Japan

Autor: Kaori Okano

Número de Páginas: 306

This participant-observation study presents the practice of school to work transition at two Japanese high schools, and explains variations about the modal career trajectory of low achieving students, drawing on Bourdieu's work. It helps to explain the relationship between social values, family ethos, industry, school and economic performance, and the relatively low class consciousness in Japan. It should be of interest to educationalists, sociologists and labour relations specialists studying Japan.

Sheridan Square

Autor: Stéphane Héaume

Número de Páginas: 197

Un soir, à Central Park, le destin du jeune mécène Sheridan Grimwood bascule. Alors que tout semblait réussir à cet homme d'affaires en vue, le retour d'un être aimé déclenche les premiers symptômes d'un effondrement psychologique. Fuyant son passé, Grimwood comprend que seuls ses sentiments pour la romancière Emily Stein pourront le sauver. Il mettra tout en œuvre pour éviter le pire : un meurtre qui scellerait son naufrage. Dans la tradition romantique du pacte faustien, Sheridan Square nous livre la parabole d'un homme prisonnier de son image, de son masque, du factice. L'opéra, toile de fond du récit, en est aussi la vibrante métaphore. Ici, chaque personnage est pris dans un tourbillon où alternent monologues, duos et chœurs, dans une troublante polyphonie où les vies se perdent et les voix se consument. Stéphane Héaume est né à Paris en 1971. Son premier roman, Le Clos Lothar (2002), a reçu les prix Jean-Giono et Emmanuel-Roblès. Il est également l'auteur du Fou de Printzberg (2006) et de La Nuit de Fort-Haggar (2009).

Oeuvre Graphique

Autor: Christophe Avella Bagur

Número de Páginas: 166

"Oeuvre graphique" présente plus de 140 dessins et oeuvres de l'artiste depuis 1992. Le livre se compose de deux parties :les projets puis les oeuvres. Retrouvez aussi les oeuvres peintes de l'artiste dans le livre "Floating Soul"

First Snow on Fuji

Autor: Yasunari Kawabata

Número de Páginas: 245

The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not–knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. These stories are beautiful and melancholy, filled with Kawabata's unerring vision of human psychology. First Snow on Fuji was originally published in Japan in 1958, ten years before Kawabata received the Nobel Prize. Kawabata selected the stories for this collection himself, and the result is a stunning assembly of disparate moods and genres. This new edition is the first to be published in English.

The Wasteland

Autor: Takako Takahashi

Número de Páginas: 236

The Wasteland explores the psychology of the modern Japanese woman and her urge to realize an inner self of latent sexuality, long suppressed in Japan's male-dominated society. Nobe Michiko, the novel's narcissistic protagonist, leaves ruined lives in her wake as she pursues her lustful goals. The author, Takahashi Takako (1932–2013) earned bachelor's and master's degrees in French literature at prestigious Kyoto University, a remarkable achievement for a woman in the 1950s. There, she was influenced by the decadent poetry of Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) and the writings of novelist and Catholic apologist François Mauriac (1885–1970). Christianity and depravity characterize both The Wasteland and many of Takahashi's other works. The novel was first published in 1980 at a time of explosive Japanese economic growth, which, in Takahashi's view, had created in Tokyo a wasteland of immorality and inhumanity. Yet it is a Christian novel, for the author was a devout Roman Catholic (indeed a one-time nun), and the title page epigraph from the Old Testament book of Hosea unmistakably mantles the narrative in a religious message: God is here to help if the wayward would but listen. ...

Bodies of Evidence

Autor: Amanda C. Seaman

Número de Páginas: 214

The publication in 1992 of Miyabe Miyuke’s highly anticipated Kasha (translated into English as All She Was Worth) represents a watershed in the history of Japanese women’s detective fiction. Inspired by Miyabe’s success and the increasing number of Western mysteries in translation, women began writing mysteries of all types, employing the narrative and conceptual resources of the detective genre to depict and critique contemporary Japanese society—and the situation of women in it. Bodies of Evidence examines this recent boom and the ways in which five contemporary authors (Miyabe, Nonami Asa, Shibata Yoshiki, Kirino Natsuo, and Matsuo Yumi) critically engage with a variety of social issues and concerns: consumerism and the crisis of identity, discrimination and harassment in the workplace, sexual harassment and sexual violence, and motherhood. Bodies of Evidence moves beyond the borders of detective fiction scholarship by exploring the worlds constructed by these authors in their novels and showing how they intersect with other political, cultural, and economic discourses and with the lived experiences of contemporary Japanese women.

So Sad to Fall in Battle

Autor: Kumiko Kakehashi

Número de Páginas: 250

The Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized innumerable times as the subject of countless books and motion pictures, most recently Clint Eastwood’s films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, and no wartime photo is more famous than Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning image of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi. Yet most Americans know only one side of this pivotal and bloody battle. First published in Japan to great acclaim, becoming a bestseller and a prize-winner, So Sad to Fall in Battle shows us the struggle, through the eyes of Japanese commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi, one of the most fascinating and least-known figures of World War II. As author Kumiko Kakehashi demonstrates, Kuribayashi was far from the stereotypical fanatic Japanese warrior. Unique among his country’s officers, he refused to risk his men’s lives in suicidal banzai attacks, instead creating a defensive, insurgent style of combat that eventually became the Japanese standard. On Iwo Jima, he eschewed the special treatment due to him as an officer, enduring the same difficult conditions as his men, and personally walked every inch of the island to plan the positions of thousands ...

Flores de verano

Autor: Tamiki Hara

Número de Páginas: 101

Tamiki Hara se hallaba en Hiroshima el día 6 de agosto de 1945 a las ocho y quince minutos, momento en que estalló la bomba que impondría una nueva manera de contemplar el mundo. Como él mismo describe en su impactante "Flores de verano" (obra ganadora del Premio Takitaro Minakami), en ese instante el autor se hallaba en una casa construida por su padre, lo suficientemente lejos del lugar de la explosión, gracias a lo cual pudo sobrevivir. Valiéndose de tres momentos narrativos diferentes, Hara narra el antes, el durante y el después de la tragedia. Con un lenguaje exento de florituras, durísimo, preciso y contundente, pero lleno de una hermosura casi poética, el autor narra cómo afloran a su alrededor la confusión, la destrucción, el horror, y lo mejor y lo peor de la condición humana. Esta obra, de una crudeza inusual, sufrió durante años la censura que prohibía a los japoneses publicar ningún tipo de escrito sobre la guerra. Es la primera vez que se traduce al castellano.

La historia de Murasaki

Autor: Liza Dalby

Número de Páginas: 473

La fascinante historia de la autora de la novela que ha sido considerada una de las obras más antiguas de la literatura japonesa, La historia de Genji. Murasaki es hija de un poeta de la corte en el apogeo del imperio japonés durante el siglo xi. Para sobrellevar su soledad, la joven dama utiliza su exuberante imaginación para inventar historias sobre el atractivo príncipe Genji, que se convierte en el protagonista de deslumbrantes aventuras amorosas. Su entretenimiento privado llega a oídos del regente, quien invita a Murasaki a la corte para deleitar a la emperatriz. Allí Murasaki se ve arrastrada por la vorágine de intrigas políticas y sexuales, y escribe su obra maestra, La historia de Genji, que es la primera novela de la literatura universal. Con las extraordinarias vivencias de Murasaki, una de las mujeres más famosas de su tiempo, reviviremos las modas, la sensibilidad y la fastuosidad exótica de la época de mayor esplendor del imperio japonés.

Voices of Foreign Brides

Autor: Choong Soon Kim

Número de Páginas: 245

Since the early 1990s, there has been a critical shortage of marriageable women in farming and fishing villages in Korea. This shortage, which has become a major social problem, resulted from a mass exodus of Korean women to cities and industrial zones. Korea's efforts to give rural bachelors a chance to marry have succeeded in providing 120,146 brides from 123 countries. However, the Korean government has proven to be ill-prepared to deal with the problems that foreign brides have encountered: family squabbles, prejudice, discrimination, divorce, suicide, and many adversities. The UN Commission on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination warned Korea to stop mistreatment of foreign brides and their children, those of so-called mixed blood, on account of human rights violations. This book comprehensively covers Korean multiculturalism, with a focus on the foreign brides. In a two-pronged ethnographic approach, it offers a historical account of Korean immigration and naturalization, while also relating that past to the contemporary situation. As more and more people cross national boundaries, this detailed description of Korean multiculturalism serves as a valuable case study for...

Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan

Autor: Adam Broinowski

Número de Páginas: 279

Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original and secondary materials from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, film and poetry, probes the interrelationship that exists between the body and the nation-state. Important artistic works, such as Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) and its subsequent re-interpretation by a leading political performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha (theatre of deconstruction), are analysed using ethnographic, historical and theoretical modes. This approach reveals the nuanced and prolonged effects of military, cultural and political occupation in Japan over a duration of dramatic change. Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan explores issues of discrimination, marginality, trauma, memory and the mediation of history in a ground-breaking work that will be of great significance to anyone interested in the symbiosis of culture and conflict.

The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image

Autor: Marnie Hughes-warrington , Kim Nelson , Mia E.m. Treacey

Número de Páginas: 474

The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding history in moving images. It engages this popular and dynamic field that has evolved rapidly from film and television to digital streaming into the age of user-created content. The volume addresses moving image history through a theoretical lens; modes and genres; representation, race, and identity; and evolving forms and formats. It brings together a range of scholars from across the globe who specialize in film and media studies, cultural studies, history, philosophy of history, and education. Together, the chapters provide a necessary contemporary analysis that covers new developments and questions that arise from the shift to digital screen culture. The book examines technological and ethical concerns stemming from today’s media landscape, but it also considers the artificial construction of the boundaries between professional expertise and amateur production. Each contributor’s unique approach highlights the necessity of engaging with moving images for the academic discipline of history. The collection, written for a global audience, offers accessible discussions...

Letters From Iwo Jima

Autor: Kumiko Kakehashi

Número de Páginas: 251

Letters from Iwo Jima reveals the true story of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the subject of two films directed by Clint Eastwood. Flags of Our Fathers tells the story of the US Marines who raised the flag above the island: the iconic image of the war with Japan. His other film, Letters from Iwo Jima, tells the story from the Japanese point of view. At the heart of the story is the maverick general Tadamichi Kuriyabashi, devoted family man, brilliant leader and the first man on the island to know they were all going to die. As Clint Eastwood comments, 'General Kuribayashi was a unique guy. He liked America. He thought it was a mistake to go to war . . . America was too big an industrial complex.' Unlike most Japanese officers, he had travelled abroad, spent time in America and was under no illusions as to the ultimate end. He fought and died to delay the Americans for as long as he could. He knew that once the island fell, it would be used as an airbase by US bombers to strike at Tokyo. His unorthodox methods made this the fiercest battle the US Marines have ever faced, and he sustained resistance far longer than anyone believed possible. Kumiko Kakehashi's heart-rending account is...