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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Main Author: Cho, Francisca (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2015]
In: Material religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 11, Issue: 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
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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