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E-book Cinema's Doppelgängers

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Ozu Yasujiro found himself pacing through the dark. It was De-cember 12, 1936 and it seemed that the world was shifting. The director hardly ever worried, his lead actor Ryu Chishu recalled, but that morning he looked as he if were “drifting, like a frag-ment of a cloud, along an ever-widening spiral,”1 first circling around the camera, then around the dining room table where he’d arranged the shoot for that day, and finally along the perim-eter of the soundstage itself, his hands clasped behind his back, head down in contemplation, no longer aware of the set he’d so painstakingly designed the night before with teacups, flow-ers, and sake bottles arranged methodically across the table and floor to provide a sense of depth to the image and to display his authorial style to the intellectual critics in Tokyo who’d already heralded him as the leading filmmaker of his generation. Ozu wasn’t troubled by the scene, Ryu said; he’d always planned every shot in a day’s work long in advance, after all. Acting on an Ozu set was like “being a salaryman — perhaps more like working at a flower shop than a bank, but a simple job like any other.”2 No, the director’s perambulations were unusu-ally anxious that morning because of the meeting he’d just had with Shochiku president Kido Shiro, who’d finally confirmed what everyone at the studio had quietly expected but also qui-etly feared for several months. Soon after Gerhard Mannheim’s The Rhineland premiered as the world’s first all-talking picture, earning windfall profits in Germany earlier that year, Holly-wood’s three major studios had announced that they’d follow suit with a slate of movies recorded entirely with spoken dia-logue. And that morning, Kido had finally told his favorite di-rector the inevitable: that the company would soon be joining the American and German film industries in making the transi-tion to a production schedule consisting entirely of recorded, synchronized sound, and that the movie that Ozu was then di-recting — Tokyo Winter, to be released in 1937 — would there-fore be his final silent film.

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No. Panggil

791.43 DIB c

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New York : Punctum books., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

387 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781953035639

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791.43

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computer

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online resource

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Motion Pictures, Movies

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