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Emperor of the Senses: RIP Nagisa Oshima 1932-2013

Last updated January 22, 2013

Screen capture of a scene from 愛のコリーダ/Ai no Korīda/In the Realm of the Senses/L'Empire des sens (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)

Compelling tension in this way is my dramaturgy (doramatsurujii). I compel tension in everyone. It is fine to compel tension in one person, but to compel tension in a great number of people, to increase it by ten-fold, that kind of tension is, I think, what life (seimei) is about.

Nagisa Oshima in 1993. Cited by Isolde Standish, 'Night and Fog in Japan: Fifty Years On', Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 1.2, 2009

Film Studies For Free was very sad to hear news of the death of one of the very greatest Japanese filmmakers Nagisa Oshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa). Links to tributes and to online studies of his work will continue to appear here over the next hours and days.

Online tributes

• David Hudson, 'DAILY | Nagisa Oshima, 1932 – 2013', Keyframe blog at Fandor, January 15, 2013
• Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, 'NagisaOshima (1932-2013), a Tribute...', Film Studies For Free, January 22, 2013
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Sun Also Sets (in memory of Nagisa Oshima, March 31, 1932 — January 15, 2013) at JonathanRosenbaum.com, January 15, 2013
• Ronald Bergan, 'Nagisa Oshima Obituary', The Guardian, January 15, 2013 
• Dennis Lim, 'Nagisa Oshima, Iconoclastic Filmmaker, Dies at 80', New York Times, January 15, 2013 
• 'Nagisa Oshima', Daily Telegraph, January 15, 2013

Online studies

• James R. Alexander,'Obscenity, Pornography, and the Law in Japan:Reconsidering Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses', Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (Winter 2003)
• Michael Atkinson, 'Be My Knife', Moving Image Source, 2008 
• Nöel Burch, To the distant observer: form and meaning in the Japanese cinema (University of Michigan Press, 1979)
• Case Study on "L'Empire Des Sens (In The Realm Of The Senses)", Students British Board of Film Classification
• Joshua M. Ferguson, 'Queer Japanese cinema : a rich and diverse cultural history’s challenge to hegemonic ideologies of gender and sexuality', MA Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010
  
• Freda Freiberg, 'The Unkindest Cut of All? Some Reflections on the Recent Cinematic Release of the Uncut Version of Nagisa Oshima's Ai no corrida', Senses of Cinema, Issue 12, Feb-Mar 2001
• Chris Fujiwara, 'The Struggle to Believe', Moving Image Source', 2008
• Andrew Grossman, 'Gohatto-or the End of Oshima Nagisa?', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 33, 2001 July  
• Oliver Hansen, 'Cruel Story of Youth', Midnight Eye, September 2012 
• Go Hirasawa, 'Underground Cinema and the Art Theatre Guild', Midnight Eye, August 2005 
• Hikari Hori, 'Representing a Woman’s Story: Explicit Film and the Efficacy of Censorship in Japan', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
• Alexander Jacoby, ''In the Realm of Oshima', Sight and Sound, September 2009 
• Nelson Kim, 'Nagisa Oshima', Senses of Cinema, Issue 31, 2004
• Joshua Land, 'Criminal Minded', Moving Image Source, 2008
• G. C. Macnab, updated by Guo-Juin Hong , 'Nagisa Oshima', Filmreference.com (date unknown)
• Kate Moran, 'Gohatto (Taboo)', Scope, November 2003
• Michael R. (Mike) Mosher, 'A Visit to Ogawa Productions', Leonardo Digital Reviews, July 2005
• Rob Nelson, 'His Will on Film', Moving Image Source, 2008
• Rob Nelson, 'Forty Years Ago Today: Oshima in ‘68', Walker Magazine, 2008
• David Phelps, 'Oshima: Artists and Lovers, Take One (of Four)', MUBI Notebook,  December 2008 (Prologue, Take Two, Take Three, Take Four)  
• David Phelps, 'The Closed World: The Films of Shinoda Masahiro – Surface play and subterfuge in the movies of a modern classicist', Senses of Cinema, Issue 61, 2011
• James Quandt, 'In the Realm of Oshima: The Films of Japanese Master Nagisa Oshim', Walker Magazine, 2008
• Tony Rayns, ' A Samurai Among Farmers: Nagisa Oshima', Film Comment, September/October 2008
• Tony Rayns, 'Empire of Passion: Love’s Phantom', Criterion Film Essays, April 27, 2009 
• Donald Richie, 'In the Realm of the Senses: Some Notes on Oshima and Pornography', Criterion Film Essays, April 30, 2009
• Kari L. Shepardson, 'Fists, Youth, and Protest: Oshima Nagisa's Filmic Rebellion in 1960', MA Thesis, University of British Columbia, December 2002
• Isolde Standish, 'Night and Fog in Japan: Fifty Years On', Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 1.2, 2009 
• Philip Strick, 'Love, honour and obey: Film of the Month: Gohatto', Sight and Sound, August 2001
  
• Hai Leong Toh, 'Sex in Asian Cinema', Kinema, Fall 2000 

Also see Film Studies For Free's other, related entries on Japanese Cinema, Kazuo Hara and Japanese Documentary Film, Japanese cinema and animation, Satoshi Kon (1963-2010).

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Issue 35 of SCREENING THE PAST: Martin, Ruiz, Godard, Marker, Malick, Ophuls, and RIP Vikki Riley

Corrected edition! [Thanks AM!]

Screen cap from Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968). Read Adrian Danks's new article on this film and its director. And read Roger Ebert's fascinating review of the film at the time of its release.

It was somewhat remiss of Film Studies For Free to tweet the link to a new, and excellent, issue of Screening the Past, and then not to follow up with an entry here. This little oversight is corrected today with the below list of contents and links.

There are a huge number of film studies topics covered in the issue (although a fair few of them, in a variety of great contributions, by Adrian Martin!). FSFF particularly liked Lorraine Sim on the ensemble film and Roger Hillman on Malick.

This blog especially recommends, also, the dossier (introduced by Martin) dedicated to the work and memory of Vikki Riley, a highly original writer on film and a tireless political activist who tragically died in a road accident in Darwin, Australia, last September.

Screening the Past, Issue 35, 2012

First Release

• Hanging Here and Groping There: On Raúl Ruiz’s “The Six Functions of the Shot”
  by Adrian Martin
• The Art of Falling Apart: Petulia and the Fate of Richard Lester
  by Adrian Danks
• Tending the Wounds of the Nation: Gender in Contemporary Iranian War Cinema
  by Michelle Langford
• Ensemble Film, Postmodernity and Moral Mapping
  by Lorraine Sim
• JLG/Jean Améry
  by Alan Wright
• Malick’s Music of the Spheres: The Tree of Life
  by Roger Hillman
• The Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, and the Liberalisation of Film Censorship in Australia
  by Cathy Hope and Adam Dickerson 

Vikki Riley (1962-2012): Early Writings

• VOLA X (Introduction)
  by Adrian Martin
• The Canonisation of Junk (1982)
  by Vikki Riley
• Poetics of Pop: The Titles of Things (1982)
  by Vikki Riley
• ‘This Magazine is for Airing Personal Complaints’ (1983)
  by Vikki Riley
• Caught … Sunless and The State of Things (1984)
  by Vikki Riley

Classics and Re-runs

• Which Hollywood? Which Ophuls?
  by Adrian Martin
• The Six Functions of the Shot
  by Raúl Ruiz 

Web-teque

• Adrian Martin interview about his book Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez,
  interviewer Anna Dzenis

Reviews

• Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-In-Pain as Redemptive Figure
• by Jeremy V. Adolphson
• One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television
  by Lauren Anderson
• Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube
  by Rebecca Bell-Metereau
• A Post-May Adolescence: A letter to Alice Debord
  by Jan Bryant
• Sergio Leone Something To Do With Death (reprint edition)
  by Patrick Condliffe
• Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism
  by Maura Edmond
• Fantasy Film: A Critical Introduction
  by Michael Grant
• Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia.
  by David Hanan
• Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction
  by Adam Knee
• British Film Design: A History
  by Brian McFarlane
• New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images
  by Sarinah Masukor
• David Lynch
  by Josh Nelson
• The Neorealist body in Postwar Italian cinema
  by Luca Peretti
• Olivier Assayas
  by Claire Perkins
• The Miracle Woman
  by Eloise Ross
• Jedda
  by Shane Smithers
• Fashion in Film
  by Sue Thomas
• Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece
  by Jay Daniel Thompson
• Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács
  by Jeni Thornley
• Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches
  by John Vanderhoef
• Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution
  by Mike Walsh
• Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodore Adorno
  by Tyson Wils
• South African Cinema 1896-2010
  by Suzanne Woodward

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