How Long to Read Cinema, Censorship, and the State

How Long Does it Take to Read Cinema, Censorship, and the State?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 22 minutes to read Cinema, Censorship, and the State by Nagisa Oshima

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The texts in this volume make up an intellectual autobiography that reveals a rare conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. Nagisa Oshima is generally regarded as the most important Japanese film. director after Kurosawa and is one of Japan's most productive and celebrated postwar artists. His early films represent the Japanese New Wave at its zenith, and the films he has made since (including In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) have won international acclaim. The more than 40 writings that make up this intellectual autobiography reveal a rare conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. Entertaining, concise, disarmingingly insightful, they trace in vivid and carefully articulated detail the development of Oshima's theory and practice.The writings are arranged in chronological order and cover the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. Following a historical overview of the contemporary Japanese cinema, a substantial section articulates the theoretical and political rationale of 0shima's film production. Among many other topics considered in his essays, Oshima questions the economics of film production, the ethics of the documentary film, censorship (both political and sexual), and the relation of aesthetics and social taboos. A filmography and notes round out this important collection.

How long is Cinema, Censorship, and the State?

Cinema, Censorship, and the State by Nagisa Oshima is 321 pages long, and a total of 80,571 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cinema, Censorship, and the State Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 20 minutes to read Cinema, Censorship, and the State aloud.

What Reading Level is Cinema, Censorship, and the State?

Cinema, Censorship, and the State is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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