Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s Book

	Preface
1	An Unhurried Gaze	3
	Norms and the Development of Style	6
	Formal Tools and Parameters	9
	Explaining Remarks about Pictures	12
2	A Zig-Zag Career	16
	Wherefore Mise-en-scene?	17
	Distant Illusions	21
	The Spectator's Role in a Theory of Authorship	24
3	Traditions and Backgrounds	30
	The Japanese Bricolage	30
	Where Japanese Films Don't Come From	33
	A Film of Its Time: Naniwa Elegy	35
4	The International Film Culture of Japan	39
	Struggle	40
	Influence	48
	Censorship	53
	An International Cinema	55
5	Modernizing Tradition	58
	Classical Japanese Cinema	58
	A Pictorial Cinema	65
6	The Downfall of Osen	71
	While Waiting for a Train	71
	Out of the Past	73
	Empty Motion and Volumeless Depth	83
7	Naniwa Elegy	96
	An Elegy of Place	96
	Thickening Style	104
8	Sisters of the Gion	116
	Conflict between a Man and a Woman	117
	Rotational Spaces, Imploding Spaces	120
	No Place Like Home	129
	Forced Melodrama	134
9	The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum	137
	A Reticent Monogatari	139
	Space, Time, and Memory	141
	New Uses for Old Scenes	149
	Kiku's Bow	156
10	Conclusion	158
	Notes	163
	Selected Bibliography	179
	Index	183