ARTH 210 - Post War Japanese Art

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Davis. Mizoguchi Kenji, Ozu Yasujiro, and Kurosawa Akira are recognized today as three of the most important and influential directors in Japanese cinema. In their films of the late 1940s and 1950s, these directors focused upon issues surrounding the human condition and the perception of truth, history, beauty, death, and other issues of the postwar period. This course will place their films in period context, and will pay particular attention to the connections to other visual media, such as painting, photography, and printmaking, as well as to the modern concepts of "art" and "history"in the cinematic context. How three directors of the 1980s and 1990s - Itami Juzo, Takeshi Kitano, and Miyazaki Hayao - also took up these issues, and referred to the "big three" will be disussed at the end of the course.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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