Introduction: Ozu, History and the Everyday

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woojeong Joo
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Japanese History ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Modern Japanese History

This chapter introduces the scope and purpose of the book. It begins with a survey of the Western theories on the everyday, concentrating on Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau and Walter Benjamin, and suggests central concepts for analysing Ozu’s films such as ‘deviation’ and ‘permeation’. The concept of the everyday is then expanded into the Japanese context by examining the possibility of applying Western ideas to modern Japanese history. Lastly, reviewing the previous Ozu studies in academia, from Richie and Bordwell to Wada-Marciano and Phillips, this chapter introduces and examines the socio-historical approach as the primary methodology of this book.

The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woojeong Joo
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Japanese History ◽  
Japanese Cinema ◽  
Japanese Film ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Modern Japanese History

Bringing three key issues - Ozu, everyday life and the modern Japanese history - into a unified discussion, The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro re-examines the renowned film director Ozu Yasujiro and his films from a socio-historical point of view to present a more contextualised contour of his cinema. The new approach will revise the previous tendency in Ozu studies that have emphasised Ozu's formal style, and articulate his consistent effort to explore the everyday life of ordinary Japanese people. The main subjects of this book include major issues of the history of Japan and Japanese cinema from prewar modernism and coming of sound cinema through struggles at war and during the US occupation, and the reconstruction and change of the postwar. It also emphasizes Ozu’s status and role as a studio director in Japanese film industry, with discussions of his generic contributions, such as shōshimin films, family melodrama, and bourgeois drama, which could be established under the constant conflict and negotiation with the studio Shochiku’s everyday realism. Upon this socio-historical context, the book attempts detailed reanalysis of Ozu's films throughout his career, centering on the multilateral aspect of the everyday in terms of space and time, produced through constant negotiation among different genders, classes and generations.

scholarly journals Ana Ma Manzanas and Jesús Benito, Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
John Laurence Dunn
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture seeks to furnish contemporary American with the conceptual spatial paradigms described by the great theorists of the social structures of the everyday, Henri Lefebvre and Michel De Certeau. It does this with an eye on Jacques Ranciere’s more recent conclusion that politics is “best understood” in spatial and relational parameters, because “everything in politics turns on the distribution of space. What are these places? How do they function?,” and crucially for this volume, “Who can occupy them?”[p.5] These continental cornerstones are augmented by the work of British theorist Doreen Massey, from whom Manzanas and Benito borrow a formal analysis of dynamic spatial relations for a social geography of “the other” that is thoroughly narratological.

Japanese Reinvention of Self through Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujin Yaguchi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese History ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
Postwar Reconstruction ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Modern Japanese History ◽  
American Society

This article investigates the relationship between Asian American and modern Japanese history by analyzing the image of Japanese Americans in postwar Japan. Based on a book of photographs featuring Japanese immigrants in Hawai‘i published in 1956, it analyzes how their image was appropriated and redefined in Japan to promote as well as reinforce the nation’s political and cultural alliance with the United States. The photographs showed the successful acculturation of Japanese in Hawai‘i to the larger American society and urged the Japanese audience to see that their nation’s postwar reconstruction would come through the power and protection of the United States. Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i served as a lens through which the Japanese in Japan could imagine their position under American hegemony in the age of Cold War.

scholarly journals Public space and accessibility: Notes for a Geographical approach

2006 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Angelo Serpa
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Jurgen Habermas

No espaço público da cidade contemporânea, o "capital escolar" e os modos de consumo são os elementos determinantes das identidades sociais. Aqui, diferença e desigualdade articulam-se no processo de apropriação espacial, definindo uma acessibilidade que é, sobretudo, simbólica. Visto assim, acessibilidade e alteridade têm uma dimensão de classe evidente, que atua na territorialização (e, na maior parte dos casos, na privatização) dos espaços públicos urbanos. Mas, afinal, que qualidades norteiam a apropriação social do espaço público na cidade contemporânea? Como explicar a apropriação seletiva e diferenciada de espaços, que, em tese, seriam - ou deveriam ser - acessíveis a todos? O presente trabalho pretende discutir essas e outras questões, baseando-se em uma revisão bibliográfica comentada das contribuições filosóficas de Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin e Henri Lefebvre. Em seguida, a partir da análise de exemplos concretos de espaços públicos, em cidades como Salvador, São Paulo e Paris, objetiva-se uma aplicação empírica dos conceitos discutidos, buscando-se elucidar as dimensões socioculturais e políticas da apropriação social destes espaços urbanos

scholarly journals Between the conceived and the lived, the practiced: the crossing of spaces at the arts and crafts fair of Namorados Square in Vitória/ES, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (88) ◽  
pp. 28-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Florio Domingues ◽  
Letícia Dias Fantinel ◽  
Marina Dantas de Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Dynamic Relationships ◽  
Space Concepts ◽  
Espirito Santo

Abstract This article aims to understand how the organizational space of a fair (the Arts and Crafts Fair of the Namorados Square, in Vitória, Espírito Santo) constitutes itself as an intersection of uses that different subjects adopt in the urban space. For this, we used an ethnographic method, with the data produced from systematic and participative observations between May and October 2015. We examined the data based on categories created from the theoretical propositions of the authors Henri Lefebvre and Michel De Certeau. Results show that the organization of the fair is determined by provisional practices, whose existence is permeated by manifestations of power, resistance and conflict, which emerge from the daily life of the subjects. By revealing forces that act by forming ephemeral harmonies, we show the intersections of space that are conceived and lived. The fair, as an organizational form, emerges from the juxtaposition of uses and appropriations of its spaces, in dynamic relationships that privilege space concepts elaborated by certain subjects and sometimes by others.

Jonson and Space

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Theory ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Bartholomew Fair

This is an essay about the making of space in Jonsonian drama. Redeploying spatial theory (in particular the work of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau) to think about Jonson’s practice of linking place with meaning, it considers the playwright’s work for both amphitheatrical and indoor playhouses, as well as the ways he deploys character and the resonant space of the offstage to engage audiences with the spaces, actual and conceptual, evoked by his drama. Plays discussed range from the early The Case is Altered and its depiction of a craftsman’s workshop as well as its offstage evocation of the court, the Every Man plays and their use of recognizable London locales, through the major comedies—Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair—to later engagements with the ways in which a sense of subjectivity is both produced by and produces space in The Devil is an Ass, The New Inn and The Magnetic Lady.

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