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).
Table des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
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.