JPN/EAS 323 • Modern Japanese Culture & Civilization

Weeks 8 ~ 11

Postwar Japanese Society

Tokyo Story

 

Note: Weekly films are available through the Language Resource Center's eVideon Server
If you wish to write a reaction paper about a weekly film, it will be due as though it were a reading for Monday

Week Eight Film: Rashômon
Monday, Feb. 25th • Modern Literature - Pre-WWII
  (BB) Akutagawa Ryûnosuke, In a Grove (1921) pp. 103-114
(BB) Kawabata Yasunari, The Izu Dancer (1925) pp. 129-148
(BB) Kobayashi Takiji, The Cannery Boat(1929) pp. 333-338
(BB) Okamoto Kanaoko,"Portrait of an Old Geisha" (1939) pp. 79-94
Wednesday, Feb. 27th • Modern Literature - Post-WWII
  (BB) Hirabayashi Taiko, "Blind Chinese Soldiers" (1946) pp. 182-186
(BB) Dazai Osamu,"Merry Christmas" (1946) pp. 224-231
(BB) Abe Kôbô, "The Magic Chalk" (1950), pp. 63-75
(BB) Kojima Nobuo, "The Rifle" (1952), pp. 240-251

• Spring Break - No class 3/4 or 3/6 •
Week Nine Film: Tokyo Story
Monday, Mar. 11th • Postwar Japan
 

Huffman, "The Reemergence: 1945-1970," pp. 149-173
(BB) Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, pp. 107-129
Wednesday, Mar. 13th • Japanese Identity
 

Hendry, ch. 1,6:
"Sources of Japanese Identity," pp. 5-20
"Status, hierarchy and ethnic diversity," pp. 91-111
"Concepts of Japan, Japaneseness, and the Japanese," pp. 21-37
--- Chapter 1 of Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture
Week Ten Film: The Family Game
Monday, Mar. 18th • Family and Community
  Hendry, ch. 2-4:
"The house and family system," pp. 23-38
"Socialisation and classification," pp. 41-54
"Community and neighborhood," pp. 57-71
Wednesday, Mar. 20th •School and Work
  Hendry, ch. 5,9:
"The education system," pp. 74-89
"Opportunities for working life," pp. 152-166

Week Eleven Film: The Funeral
Monday, Mar. 25th • Religion and Ritual
  Hendry, ch. 7-8:
"Religious influences," pp. 115-130
"Ritual and the life cycle," pp. 134-149
Wednesday, Mar. 27th • Japanese Film
  (BB) Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, pp. 129-176

 

 

 

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