Featured Publication
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
by David Bordwell
SPO partners with the Publication Program at the Center for Japanese Studies to distribute their out of print books online and to publish the Michigan Classics series. Ozu and Poetics of Cinema, an important study of Japanese film, was originally published by Princeton University Press in 1988. When the rights reverted to the author, Bordwell licensed the book to CJS for electronic publication. SPO initially released this title online in 2006 as black and white page scans. However, the book is illustrated with many still images by Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, and neither the print nor the scanned book did these images justice. This enhanced version substitutes the author's actual color and grayscale versions of the images in the bitonal pages. SPO was also able to offer the feature of making larger versions of the frame stills viewable by clicking on the images. Thumbnail figures were added that link to larger counterparts which offer panning and zooming.
