Woojeong Joo received his PhD degree from University of Warwick and is currently teaching in Japan-in-Asia Cultural Studies Program at Nagoya University, Japan.
Joo is a perceptive viewer of Ozu's films, particularly skilled at
the structural analysis of narrative and character.[...] a major
contribution to the field.--Michael Raine, Western University
"Monumenta Nipponica"
This is a groundbreaking publication that is going to make a
significant contribution to English language scholarship on one of
the most important directors in international film history.
Woojeong Joo's patient and attentive focus on the shifting
stylistic and contextual elements of Ozu's vast filmography
uncovers a textured and highly nuanced tapestry of Japanese social
experience. This book is a wise riposte to Paul Schrader's
misleading dictum that 'in the everyday nothing is expressive, all
is coldness.' Far from it, Joo argues. For Ozu, the everyday was
the key location where form, feeling and history found their most
meaningful and enduring coalescence.--Dr Alastair Phillips,
University of Warwick
Woojeong Joo's new study of Ozu is one of the most precise and
nuanced accounts of the director's cinema to date...an admirable
book.'--Alexander Jacoby "Sight and Sound"
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