Throw away your books, rally in the streets: Yoshimoto Takaaki’s taishū concept and the film-making of Terayama Shuji

A knowledge of an ideology’s artistic aspect facilitates the understanding of its theory, and vice versa. This article makes a com-parative analysis of the film-making of Terayama Shūji, specifically Sho o suteyo machi e deyō [Throw away your books, rally in the streets], and Yoshimoto Takaaki’s the...

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Autor: de Vargas, Ferran
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Asia y África
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx:article/2376
Acceso en línea:https://estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx/index.php/eaa/article/view/2376
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Japanese cinema
ideology
New Left
Terayama Shuji
Yoshimoto Takaaki
cine japones
ideologia
Nueva Izquierda
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Sumario:A knowledge of an ideology’s artistic aspect facilitates the understanding of its theory, and vice versa. This article makes a com-parative analysis of the film-making of Terayama Shūji, specifically Sho o suteyo machi e deyō [Throw away your books, rally in the streets], and Yoshimoto Takaaki’s theory of taishū, both as components of the Japanese New Left’s ideology of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Specifically, I focus on the parallels between Terayama’s films and Yoshimoto’s theory in their view of the relationship between the intellectual and the masses. I develop this comparative analysis on the basis that, even though both Yoshimoto and Terayama criticize ideology, their proposals contain a strong political component.