The Ozu Bibliography (Please send corrections or additions here)
BooksBordwell, David
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema London: BFI Pub.; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.Branigan, Edward
"The Space of Equinox Flower" In: Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism / edited by Peter Lehman. pp: 73-108. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press; Gainesville, FL: Orders to University Presses of Florida, c1990.Geist, Kathe
"Playing with Space: Ozu and Two-Dimensional Design in Japan" In: Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan, edited by Linda C. Ehrlich and... 1st ed. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1994.Geist, Kathe
"Narrative Strategies in Ozu's Late Films" In: Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History, edited by Arthur Nolletti, Jr. and David Desser. pp: 91-111. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1992.Geist, Kathe
"Playing with Space: Ozu and Two-dimensional Design in Japan" In: Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan, edited by Linda C. Ehrlich pp: 283-98. 1st ed. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1994.Hasumi, Shiguehiko
Yasujiro Ozu (French version, originally published in Japan in 1983). Cahiers du Cinema, 1998.Ozu, Yasujiro
Carnets 1933-1963 (French version of Ozu's journal). 801 pages, Editions Alive, 1997.Ozu's Tokyo Story
Edited by David Desser. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Series title: Cambridge film handbook series.Richie, Donald
Ozu. Berkeley, University of California Press [1974].Richie, Donald
"The Inn Sequence from Ozu's Late Autumn" In: Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History, edited by Arthur Nolletti, Jr. and David Desser. pp: 112-25. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1992.Rosenbaum, Jonathan
"Ozu's Good Morning" In: Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism, Jonathan Rosenbaum. pp: 84-86. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995.Schrader, Paul
Transcendental style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972.Thompson, Kristin
"Late Spring and Ozu's Unreasonable Style" In: Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis, Kristin Thompson. pp: 317-52. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1988.Varley, H. Paul
"Culture in the Present Age" In: Japanese Aesthetics and Culture, edited by Nancy G. Hume. pp: 295-340. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, c1995. SUNY series in Asian studies development.Yasujiro Ozu: A Critical Anthology
Edited by John Gillett and David Wilson. London: British Film Institute, 1976.
Journal Articles
Bock, Audie
"Ozu Reconsidered" Film Criticism vol. 8 no. 1. 1983 Fall. pp: 50-53.Boyers, Robert
"Secular Vision, Transcendental Style: The Art of Yasujiro Ozu" Georgia Review (1978: Spring)Geist, Kathe
"Narrative Style in Ozu's Silent Films" Film Quarterly 40:2 (1986/1987:Winter)Geist, Kathe
"The Role of Marriage in the Films of Yasujiro Ozu" East-West Film Journal vol. 4 no. 1. 1989 Dec. pp: 44-52.Geist, Kathe
"West Look East: The Influence of Yasujiro Ozu on Wim Wenders and Peter Handke" Art Journal (1983:Fall)Geist, Kathe
"Yasujiro Ozu: Notes on a Retrospective" Film Quarterly (1983:Fall) 2 40:2 (1986/1987:Winter) The customary ideas about Ozu's stylistic evolution, use of "still-life" shots, and attitudes toward westernization are all highly questionable.Knee, Adam
"The Family Game Is Up: Morita Revises Ozu" Post Script, vol. 11 no. 1. 1991 Fall. pp: 40-47. Compares Yoshimitsu Morita's 1983 release "Kazoku geemu" with Ozu's "Umarete wa Mita Keredo" in its depiction of Japanese family life.Konshak, D.J.
"Space and Narrative in 'Tokyo Story'" Film Criticism IV/3, Spring 80; p.31-40.Lopate, Philip
"Yasujiro Ozu: The Subtly Observant Eye" Cineaste vol. 23 no. 3. 1998. pp: 26-29.Powell, Dilys
"Cinema: Wizard of Ozu?" Punch (1983:Nov. 2)Richie, Donald
"The Appeal of Ozu: The Most Japanese of Filmmakers" New York Times, Sept. 26, 1982.Richie, Donald
"Yasujiro Ozu" Film Quarterly (1963/1964:Winter)Richie, Donald
"The Later Films of Yasujiro Ozu" Film Quarterly (1959:Fall)Russell, Catherine
"'Overcoming Modernity': Gender and the Pathos of History in Japanese Film Melodrama" Camera Obscura, vol.35. 1995 May. pp: 131-57.Shipman, David
"Tokyo Story" (Review). Films & Filming, Nov 83; p.35-36.Silver, Larry A.
"Ozu, Cinema, and Culture" The Journal of Ethnic Studies vol. 4 no. 1. 1976 Spring. pp: 117-125.Takahashi, Osamu
"Brilliant Shadows: Ozu Yasujiro" Japan Quarterly (1984:Oct/Dec) 435; 31:3 (1984:July/Sept)
Individual Films (Books, Reviews, and Articles)
Lopate, Philip
"Early Summer" (Review) Cineaste v23, n3 (Summer, 1998)Lopate, Philip
"Floating Weeds" (Review) Cineaste v23, n3 (Summer, 1998)Kauffmann, Stanley
"Tokyo Story: Another Viewing" Art & Cinema, vol. 1 no. 2. 1986 Fall. pp: 5-6.Konshak, D.J.
"Space and Narrative in 'Tokyo Story'" Film Criticism IV/3, Spring 80; p.31-40.McDonald, Keiko
"Ozu's Tokyo Story: Simple Means for Complex Ends" Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 17 no. 1. 1982 Apr. pp: 19-39.Ozu's Tokyo Story
Edited by David Desser. Cambridge, U.K.; New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Cambridge film handbooks series.Rayns, Tony
"Tokyo Monogatari" Sight and Sound v4, n2 (Feb, 1994)Shipman, David
"Tokyo Story" (Review). Films & Filming /350, Nov 83; p.35-36.
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