Russian Kurosawa - Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently

Offers a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through a detailed discussion of the four films he made based on Russian sources.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: "Some Nice Music": The Russian Subtext of Kurosawa's Films


• 2: "Toad in a Box": Self-Restoration as People's History


• 3: The Idiot: Where the East Meets the West


• 4: "To live! To live how?": Tolstoyan Religion in Ikiru


• 5: The Lower Depths: Beggar Cinema, or Resistance to National Narcissism


• 6: The Erased Grave of Dersu Uzala: A Nonwar Cinema of Memory and Mourning

About the author

Olga V. Solovieva studied at the Moscow State University, Freie Universität Berlin, and Yale and currently teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Christ's Subversive Body: Practices of Religious Rhetoric in Culture and Politics (Northwestern University Press, 2018) and co-editor of Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm (Cambria Press, 2021).

Summary

Offers a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through a detailed discussion of the four films he made based on Russian sources.

Product details

• Authors: Solovieva , Olga V. Solovieva, Olga V. (Assistant Professor Solovieva
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780192866004
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286600-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Global Asias
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Russian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet