The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood

by Sean Redmond

Overview

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 oeuvre 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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231163323
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/19/2013
Series:	Directors' Cuts
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Becoming Lost in Tokyo
1. Time, Space and Whatever
2. Flowering Blood
3. Intense Alterity
4. Starring Kitanos
5. This is the Sea
Conclusion: Standing Outside Office Kitano
Postscript: I Welcome the Pain of it Already
Filmography
Bibliography
Index