"Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy re-examines cinema studies through the work of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963), repositioning Ozu within contemporary discussions to explore cinemas relationship to the world and the formation of cinema studies as a discipline. Centering a small selection of Ozu films in each chapter, Miyao highlights the methodological choices of a single filmmaker while critiquing the deep-rooted culturalism and marginalization witnessed in the study of Japanese cinema. By analyzing the visual elements and cinematic context of Ozus films as vehicles of a certain kind of ethics, Miyao interrogates the stakes of filmmaking as a genre. He theorizes nationalism and transnationalism within filmmaking, initiating a multi-directional dialogue on the study of cinema that reaches beyond auteurism and culturalism to establish a new basis for disciplinary conversations"-- Provided by publisher.