Acting the Role of Gods: Shinoda Masahiro's Cinematic Confrontations with the Absolute Image

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dc.contributor.advisorMiyao, Daisukeen_US
dc.contributor.authorKoble, Seanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-29T17:45:45Z
dc.date.available2014-09-29T17:45:45Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-29
dc.description.abstractThe narrative structure and formal style of the director Shinoda Masahiro's films reveal his ethical objective to encourage his viewer to engage with works of cinematic representation as the creative products of human agency that they are. Within his period films, Shinoda hopes to stimulate recognition of cinema's genealogical inheritance and reproduction of the absolutist propositions underlying traditional Japanese cultural forms. He posits that these have redirected essential human drives into masochistic self-effacement in tribute to a divine ideal imaged in the Imperial polity. By disrupting the illusion of cinematic realism which simply serves to reinforce Japanese culture's existent intertextual networks, Shinoda seeks to reground cultural expressions in their material and human origins. This acts as the first step to imagining a Japanese subject outside of the limited definitions posed by nostalgic absolutism and its reactionary antithesis in the equally self-destructive mode of global capitalism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18363
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectAbsolutismen_US
dc.subjectDistantiationen_US
dc.subjectFilmen_US
dc.subjectHumanismen_US
dc.subjectNew Waveen_US
dc.subjectShinodaen_US
dc.titleActing the Role of Gods: Shinoda Masahiro's Cinematic Confrontations with the Absolute Imageen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of East Asian Languages and Literaturesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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