Kurosawa - Film Studies and Japanese Cinema

"A tour-de-force reading of Kurosawa's films. Yoshimoto adds greatly to current Kurasawa scholarship and to situating the construct 'Japanese Cinema' in a way that it has not been situated before."--E. Ann Kaplan, author of "Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze"

Sommario

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

I Japanese Cinema in Search of a Discipline 7

II The Films of Kurosawa Akira 51

Kurosawa Criticism and the Name of the Author 53

Sanshiro Sugata 69

The Most Beautiful 81

Sanshiro Sagata, Part 2 89

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail 93

No Regrets for Our Youth 114

One Wonderful Sunday 135

Drunken Angel 138

The Quiet Duel 140

Stray Dog 147

Scandal 179

Rashomon 182

The Idiot 190

Ikiru 194

Seven Samurai 205

Record of a Living Being 246

Throne of Blood 250

The Lower Depths 270

The Hidden Fortress 272

The Bad Sleep Well 274

Yojimbo 289

Sanjuro 293

High and Low 303

Red Beard 332

Dodeskaden 334

Dersu Uzala 344

Kagemusha 348

Ran 355

Dreams 359

Rhapsody in August 364

Madadayo 372

Epilogue 375

Notes 379

Filmography 433

Bibliography 451

Index 471

Info autore

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto is Associate Professor of Japanese, Cinema, and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

Riassunto

The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. This title analyses Kurosawa's entire body of work, from 1943's Sanshiro Sugata to 1993's Madadayo.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2000
• EAN: 9780822324836
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2483-6
• Pagine: 277
• Peso: 1084 g
• Illustrazioni: 7 b&w photographs
• Serie: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; Japan, einzelne Regisseure, Filmemacher, Fernsehen, TV