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Author Nornes, Markus.

Title Forest of pressure : Ogawa Shinsuke and postwar Japanese documentary / Abé Mark Nornes
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 317 pages) : illustrations
Series Visible evidence ; v. 18
Visible evidence ; v. 18.
Contents Ogawa as postwar documentarist -- Jieiso: Ogawa's first collectivity -- The Sanrizuka series -- Segue: from "Sanrizuka Ogawa pro" to "documentary cinema Ogawa pro" -- The Magino village story -- After Ogawa
Summary Ogawa Productions-known in Asia as Ogawa Pro-was an influential filmmaking collective that started in the 1960s under the direction of Ogawa Shinsuke (1936-1992). Between 1968 and the mid-1970s, Ogawa Pro electrified the Japanese student movement with its Sanrizuka documentary series-eight films chronicling the massive protests over the construction of the Narita airport-which has since become the standard against which documentaries are measured in Japan. A critical biography of a collective, Forest of Pressure explores the emergence of socially committed documentary filmmaking in postwar Jap
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-287) and index
Includes filmography: pages 289-299
Notes English
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Subject Ogawa, Shinsuke, 1936-1992 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Ogawa, Shinsuke, 1936-1992. fast (OCoLC)fst00332794
Subject LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816698943
0816698945