Description: Situates the work of Kinoshita Keisuke both within Japanese cinema and contemporary world cinema
Brief description: David Desser is Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois. He is a well-known scholar of Japanese cinema, author or editor of eight books on the subject. His latest publications are The Blackwell Companion to Japanese Cinema (2023) and, with Lindsay Coleman, Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura (2019). He has worked on a number of Blu-ray commentaries for Criterion (including Tokyo Story) and Arrow Academy, including a boxset of the films of Yoshida Kiju.
Review Quotes: The Cinema of Kinoshita Keisuke is a much-needed book that has arrived at the most opportune time.--Patrick Galvan "Our Culture Magazine"