Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21F.593 (Spring 2006) 
• Course Title:
• Japanese Literature and Cinema 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Foreign Languages and Literatures 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Ian Condry 
• Course Introduction:
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  21F.065 / 21F.593 Japanese Literature and Cinema
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2006

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features an extensive list of films and readings as well as instructions for all essay assignments.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course includes surveys for both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such as the classical era, the samurai age, wartime Japan and the atomic bombings, social change in the postwar period, and the appropriation of foreign cultural themes, with an emphasis on the modern period. The directors include Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Teshigahara. The authors include Kobo Abe and Yukio Mishima. The films are shown with subtitles in English. The course is taught in English.