Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema

Aaron Gerow, Yale University:
This groundbreaking book shows that Suzuki, far from being “incomprehensible,” was actually understood by—and deeply entwined with—competing theoretical schools in Japan. Carroll’s study offers not only illuminating analyses of Suzuki’s cinema of deviation within its historical context but also compelling expositions on what it means for cinema then and today.

Isolde Standish, author of Politics, Porn, and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s:
Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema is a thoughtful, stimulating, and rigorous study of a neglected Japanese filmmaker. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of critical discourses circulating in Japan and the situation of the domestic film industry during the protracted decline of the studio system.