- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the sense of the senses
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1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations1 -
2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography -
3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text -
4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place -
5. Boru-vedak (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka -
6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing -
7. Transplant -
8. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong -
9. The Castaways Project -
10. Air Pressure: a sound film -
11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl -
12. Contest Behaviour -
13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography -
14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War -
15. Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’ -
16. Cottonopolis: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture -
17. Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics -
18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses -
19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy1 - Bibliography
- Index
- DVD contents
Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography
Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography
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- (p.127) 13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography
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- Author(s):
Catherine Russell
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- Manchester University Press
This chapter frames the Japanese cinema and TV genre of ‘home drama’ shomin-geki,, as a sensory mode of ethnography about ‘ordinary people’, which is nevertheless virtual—a phantasmagoria of cultural practices and feelings. Through a critical ‘reading against the grain’ of this genre and particularly the works of Naruse Mikio as examples of ‘vernacular modernism’, it shows how these films provides a valuable portrait of modern Japanese culture as it imagined itself to be.
Keywords: vernacular modernism, home drama, ordinary people, Japan, Naruse Mikio, cinema
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the sense of the senses
-
1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations1 -
2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography -
3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text -
4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place -
5. Boru-vedak (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka -
6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing -
7. Transplant -
8. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong -
9. The Castaways Project -
10. Air Pressure: a sound film -
11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl -
12. Contest Behaviour -
13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography -
14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War -
15. Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’ -
16. Cottonopolis: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture -
17. Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics -
18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses -
19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy1 - Bibliography
- Index
- DVD contents
