A masterfully written collection of short essays by the recognized Western expert on Japanese culture and film and the man Time magazine calls «the dean of art critics in Japan.» Spanning more than thirty years, Richie interprets his adopted home's creative accomplishments during its rise to economic and cultural power.
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Donald Richie. A Lateral View
Introduction
I
Japan: A Description
Japanese Shapes
Japanese Rhythms
II
Tokyo, the Impermanent Capital
The ‘Real’ Disneyland
The City Home
Walking in Tokyo
The Kapital of Kitsch
Tokyo Style
III
Gesture as Language
Signs and Symbols
A Vocabulary of Taste
The Tongue of Fashion
IV
Notes of the Noh
The Kyogen
Japan’s Avant-garde Theater
The Strata of Japanese Drama
V
Women in Japanese Cinema
The Japanese Eroduction
A Definition of the Japanese Film
Attitudes toward Tokyo on Film
New Ways of Viewing
VI
TV: The Presentational Image
Mizushobai: The Art of Pleasing
The Japanese Kiss
Pachinko
Walkman, Manga and Society
The State of the Arts
Отрывок из книги
A LATERAL VIEW
Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan
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Shinjuku’s Kinokuniya Bookstore, in front of Ginza’s Wako
Department Store, in front of the Almond Coffee Shop at Rop
