Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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Beskrivning

In Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema, James Goodwin draws on contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to explore the Japanese director's use of a variety of texts to create films that are uniquely intertextual and intercultural. Surveying all of Kurosawa's films and examining six films in depth- The Idiot, The Lower Depths, Rashomon, Ikiru, Throne of Blood, and Ran-Goodwin finds in Kurosawa's themes and techniques the capacity to restructure perceptions of Western and Japanese cultures and to establish new meanings in each.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-01-26
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801846618

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Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

James Goodwin is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Goodwin's analysis is most interesting in this account of how many Kurosawa plots (like Rashomon and Ikiru) feature a modernist competition between texts to argue a version of what 'really' happened. Journal of Asian Studies A dense, theoretically sophisticated account of the intertextual nature of film as a medium. Goodwin discusses here, among other things, interculturality, the problematic notion of the auteur, and the dialogic production processes employed by Kurosawa. Above all, Kurosawa is described as a film-maker for whom life and art are always in the process of becoming, never static or singular. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory