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Author Freda Freiberg

Freda Freiberg

Freda Freiberg is a freelance critic, lecturer and researcher on Japanese cinema.

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Miyazaki’s Heroines (Issue 40, July 2006)

Freda Freiberg
October 2019
Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema
Issue 92
Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 40, July 2006. Girls occupy a distinctive place in Japan’s mass media, including films and literature. What fascinates the Japanese is that the shojo nestle...
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Time’s Relentless Melt: Corinne Cantrill’s In This Life’s Body

Freda Freiberg
October 2010
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill Dossier
Issue 56
This article was first published in the groundbreaking Don’t Shoot Darling! Women’s Independent Filmmaking in Australia (Greenhouse Publications, Richmond, 1987, pp. 334-42). It is reproduced here with the...
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Pale Flower

Freda Freiberg
April 2009
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 50
Pale Flower/Kawaita hana (1963 Japan 96 mins) Prod Co: Shochiku Dir: Shinoda Masahiro Scr: Baba Masaru, Shinoda Masahiro, adapted from a story by Ishihara Shintaro Phot: Kosugi Masao Mus: Takemitsu...
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Miyazaki’s Heroines

Freda Freiberg
July 2006
Feature Articles
Issue 40
This essay examines the Shojo archetype (androgynous cute young girl) that figures prominently in Miyazaki’s films and its relevance to Japanese culture.
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Mizoguchi and Japan by Mark Le Fanu

Freda Freiberg
July 2006
Book Reviews
Issue 40
Kenji Mizoguchi is acknowledged as one of the masters of classic Japanese cinema, but his films are rarely exhibited or studied in film courses. One of the major reasons for this sad state of affairs is...
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Re-viewing Mizoguchi, Master Choreographer of the Long Take

Freda Freiberg
July 2005
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 36
Mizoguchi is acknowledged as one of the three great masters of classic Japanese cinema but he has not received the same amount of attention as the other two, outside of Japan and France. Film theorists and...
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Twenty-Four Eyes

Freda Freiberg
October 2004
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 33
Twenty-Four Eyes/Nijushi no hitomi (1954 Japan 155 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Shochiku Dir: Keisuke Kinoshita Scr: Keisuke Kinoshita, based on Sakae Tsuboi's novel Phot: Hiroyuki Kusuda Art Dir:...
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Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna)

Freda Freiberg
July 2004
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 32
Dragnet Girl/Hijosen no onna (1933 Japan 100 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shockiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Tadao Ikeda, based on a story by “James Maki” (Yasujiro Ozu) Phot: Hideo Mohara Ed: Kazuo...
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Donzoko (The Lower Depths)

Freda Freiberg
April 2004
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 31
Donzoko/The Lower Depths (1957 Japan 125 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Toho Prod, Dir, Ed: Akira Kurosawa Scr: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, from the play by Maxim Gorky Phot: Kazuo Yamasaki Prod Des:...
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Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era Through Hiroshima by Abe Mark Nornes

Freda Freiberg
February 2004
Book Reviews
Issue 30
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003) Film scholars have rightly become sceptical about the value of books published under the imprint of an American academic institution. Too often we...
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Utamaro and his Five Women

Freda Freiberg
March 2003
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 25
Utamaro and his Five Women/Utamaro o Meguro Gonin no Onna (1947 Japan 90mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Shochiku (Kyoto studio) Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi Scr: Yoshikata Yoda Phot: Shigeto Miki Ed: Shintarô...
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Border Crossings: Ann Hui’s cinema

Freda Freiberg
October 2002
Filmmaker Profiles
Issue 22
Freda praises highly the cinema of Ann Hui, in particular, her tender, lyrical Song of the Exile.
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