The Play of Shadows in Japanese Cinema

The medieval Japanese Buddhist-inspired aesthetic concept of yūgen emphasizes the absence of light, movement, and form in order to create a sense of deep but non-discursive meaning. This pre-modern concept can be applied to the film Rashomon to appreciate how the movie uses light and shadow to point...

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主要作者: Cho, Francisca (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: [2015]
In: Material religion
Year: 2015, 卷: 11, 發布: 4, Pages: 507-525
Further subjects:B Shadows
B yūgen
B Hirokazu Kore'eda
B Akira Kurosawa
B Light
B Emptiness
B non-diegetic
B yin
在線閱讀: Volltext (Publisher)
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總結:The medieval Japanese Buddhist-inspired aesthetic concept of yūgen emphasizes the absence of light, movement, and form in order to create a sense of deep but non-discursive meaning. This pre-modern concept can be applied to the film Rashomon to appreciate how the movie uses light and shadow to point to the necessity of abandoning intellectual knowledge in order to move towards moral action. The yūgen concept is also instantiated in the way the film Maborosi uses shadows to create stunning images that form an alternative perception of the world beyond conventional human concerns.
實物描述:Illustrationen
ISSN:1751-8342
Contains:Enthalten in: Material religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2015.1103480