Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-330) and index.
Contrasts in Chinese and Japanese art / Sherman Lee -- Film and the visual arts in China : an introduction / Douglas Wilkerson -- Chinese visual representation : painting and cinema / Hǎo Dàzhēng -- Classical Chinese painting and cinematographic signification / Ní Zhèn -- Post-socialist strategies : an analysis of Yellow earth and Black cannon incident / Chris Berry and Mary Ann Farquhar -- The pain of a half Taoist : Taoist principles, Chinese landscape painting, and King of the children / Ān Jǐngfū -- Judou : an experiment in color and portraiture in Chinese cinema / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau -- Film and the visual arts in Japan : an introduction / Thomas Rimer -- The influence of traditional aesthetics on the Japanese film / Donald Richie -- Japanese cinema and the traditional arts : imagery, technique, and cultural context / Satō Tadao -- Genroku chūshingura and the primacy of perception / D. William Davis -- Ways of seeing Japanese prints and films : Mizoguchi's Utamaro / Dudley Andrew -- Kobayashi's widescreen aesthetic / Cynthia Contreras -- Playing with form : Ichikawa's An actor's revenge and the "creative print" / Linda C. Ehrlich -- Playing with space : Ozu and two-dimensional design in Japan / Kathe Geist -- Gate of flesh(tones) : color in the Japanese cinema / David Desser