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This book has an illustration from "A TV Dante" by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway. The accompanying poster is a replica of the its cover. The design layout features fractured columns with intensive use of hyphenation and varied colored texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Peter Greenaway has based his movie of 1994 on the story of Sei Shonagon a lady in waiting at the Japanese Heian Dynasty Imperial Court. He adapted this ancient story to a contemporary setting. It is a story of a contemporary Japanese woman who obsessively has her many lovers write texts on her body and she on theirs. "Our attention is drawn to view the film as an ironic demonstration that cinema, even now after hundred years of pretending to be an autonomous activity, is invariably text-driven, and almost wholly supported by literature." This book documents the script of the film and reproduces representative stills from it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a modern day version of a 10th Century Chinese story that has been brilliantly adapted, conceived, written and directed by Greenaway. It features body art using Japanese calligraphy done by Brody Neuenschwander. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a modern day version of a 10th Century Chinese story that has been brilliantly adapted, conceived, written and directed by Greenaway. It features body art using Japanese calligraphy done by Brody Neuenschwander. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.