William Carroll offers a new account of Suzuki’s career that highlights the intersections of film theory, film production, cinephile culture, and politics in 1960s Japan. Carroll places Suzuki’s work between two factions that claimed him as one of their own after 1968: the New Left and its politicized theoretical practice on one hand, and the apparently apolitical cinephiles and their formalist criticism on the other.
Title: Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema
Author: William Carroll
Affiliation: Duke University
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pub. Date: June 2022
Website: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/suzuki-seijun-and-postwar-japanese-cinema/9780231204378