Kore-eda Hirokazu

di Marc Yamada (Autore)

University of Illinois Press, 2023

Films like Shoplifters and After the Storm have made Kore-eda Hirokazu one of the most acclaimed auteurs working today. Critics often see Kore-eda as a director steeped in the Japanese tradition defined by Yasujiro Ozu. Marc Yamada, however, views Kore-eda’s work in relation to the same socioeconomic concerns explored by other contemporary international filmmakers. Yamada reveals that a type of excess, not the minimalism associated with traditional aesthetics, defines Kore-eda’s trademark humanism. This excess manifests in small moments when a desire for human connection exceeds the logic of the institutions and policies formed by the neoliberal values that have shaped modern-day Japan. As Yamada shows, Kore-eda captures the shared spaces formed by bodies that move, perform, and assemble in ways that express the humanistic impulse at the core of the filmmaker’s expanding worldwide appeal.

• Autore: Marc Yamada
• Editore: University of Illinois Press
• Collana: Contemporary Film Directors
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 176 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 140 mm
• EAN: 9780252087264

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