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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Reading the Air
  7. 1. Background Music of the Avant-Garde: The Quiet Boom of Erik Satie
  8. 2. The Sound of Embodied Security: Imaginary Landscapes of Ambient Music
  9. 3. Moving with the Rhythms of the City: Ambient Video Attunements
  10. 4. Soft Fascinations in Shallow Depth: Compositing Ambient Space
  11. 5. Subtractivism: Low-Affect Living with Ambient Cinema
  12. 6. Healing Style: Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm
  13. Conclusion
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Film and Videography
  18. Discography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author

Film and Videography

  1. Akarui mirai (Bright future) (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan, 2003).

  2. Apoptosis (Tsuchiya Takafumi, Japan, 2008).

  3. Aura (Takagi Masakatsu, Japan, 2003).

  4. Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a great city) (Walter Ruttmann, Germany, 1927).

  5. Birdland (Takagi Masakatsu, Japan, 2001–2).

  6. BU-SU (Ichikawa Jun, Japan, 1987).

  7. Byōin de shinu koto (Dying at a hospital) (Ichikawa Jun, Japan, 1993).

  8. Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Man with a movie camera) (Dziga Vertov, USSR, 1929).

  9. Daidō Moriyama (Stray Dog of Tokyo) (Fujii Kenjirō, Japan, 2001).

  10. Empire (Andy Warhol, USA, 1964).

  11. Entr’acte (Rene Clair, France, 1924).

  12. Friends of Minamata Victims: A Video Diary (Nakaya Fujiko, Japan, 1971–72).

  13. Future Garden (Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, Japan, 1983).

  14. Galaxy Garden (Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, Japan, 1986).

  15. Gensō kōjō (Industrial romanesque) (Nihon Media Play series, Japan, 2006–12).

  16. Hatsu-yume/First Dream (Bill Viola, Japan, 1981).

  17. Hitsuji ga suki: Nihon no hitsuji bokujō (I like sheep: Japanese sheep ranches) (Synforest, Japan, 2009).

  18. Jellyfish: Healing Kurage (Kikkawa Hiroshi and Kodama Yūichi, Japan, 2006).

  19. Jour de reve (Kawamura Yuki, France, 2005).

  20. Kick the World (Kawanaka Nobuhiro, Japan, 1974).

  21. Kiri (Mist, Hagiwara Sakumi, Japan, 1972).

  22. Kōkaku kidōtai (Ghost in the Shell) (Oshii Mamoru, Japan, 1995).

  23. Le feu follet (Will o’ the wisp/The fire within) (Louie Malle, France, 1963).

  24. Light Park #2 (Takagi Masakatsu, Japan, 2001–2).

  25. Mabataki no kazu (Number of blinks) (Ise Shōko, Japan, 2003).

  26. Mercuric Dance (Arai Tadayoshi, Japan, 1984).

  27. Noema (Ise Shōko, Japan, 2008).

  28. Paradise View (Takamine Gō, Japan, 1985).

  29. +Intersection (Ise Shōko, Japan, 2002).

  30. Port (Kawamura Yuki, France, 2005).

  31. Rama (Takagi Masakatsu, Japan, 2002).

  32. rheo: 5 horizons (Kurokawa Ryōichi, Japan, 2010).

  33. Ryoma to tsuma to sono otto to aijin (Ryoma’s wife, her husband, and her lover) (Ichikawa Jun, Japan, 2002).

  34. The Silk Road (NHK television series, Japan, 1980–84 and 1988–89).

  35. Slide (Kawamura Yuki, France, 2005).

  36. Sono otoko, kyōbō ni tsuki (Violent cop) (Kitano Takeshi, Japan, 1989).

  37. Summer Afternoon (Ise Shōko, Japan, 2008).

  38. Swimming in Qualia (Ise Shōko, Japan, 2007).

  39. Tadon to Chikuwa (Tadon and Chikuwa) (Ichikawa Jun, Japan, 1998).

  40. The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK, 1949).

  41. Thursday Afternoon (Brian Eno, USA/Japan, 1984).

  42. Tokyo Marigold (Ichikawa Jun, Japan, 2001).

  43. Tony Takitani (Ichikawa Jun, Japan, 2004).

  44. Ugetsu monogatari/Ugetsu (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan, 1953).

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges support for the open-access edition of this book from the MIT Libraries.

An earlier version of chapter 2 was published as “Ambient Landscapes from Brian Eno to Tetsu Inoue,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 21, no. 4 (2009): 364–83. Portions of chapters 5 and 6 were previously published as “Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm: Mood Regulation in Contemporary Japanese Fiction,” Journal of Japanese Studies 35, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 87–111.

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