The waves at Genji's door

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Contents: Part 1 : At Genji's door = 1 The feudal and the modern = 3 The warriors of Meiji = 16 The Japanese woman = 27 Kurosawa's women = 41 Part 2 : Being Japanese : the quest through history = 57 Ryoma= 61 Mere anarchy : the nihilist period of film = 78 Celluloid samurai : the protest film in disguise = 85 The samurai film without samurai = 100 From Chambara to Yakuza 113 Part 3 : The Second World War and its aftermath = 135 The Japanese film during the Second World War = 137 The anti-war film in Japan = 167 The devastated homeland = 201 Part 4 : Woman in Japan = 245 The husbandless patriarchy = 247 Mizoguchi : woman as slave = 252 The two naruses = 270 Tadashi Imai : woman under feudalism = 290 Hani's awakened women 294 Shohei Imamura : woman as survivor = 301 Part 5 : The family under siege = 311 Ozu : the family upheld = 316 Ichikawa's wholesome and unwholesome families = 331 Susumu Hani : the family as betrayer ; The structures of Oshima = 343 The family anatomized : Imamura's The pornographer = 353 Part 6 : Alternatives = 377 The civilized and the "primitive" = 379 The political cinema in Japan = 396 Japan's revolutionary documentarists = 427

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