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Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema(Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

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An exploration of the films of Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa. It addresses the entire body of Kurosawa's work from 1943 to 1993, seeking to shift the ground upon which Japanese cinema has been built and question its dominant interpretative frameworks and critical assumptions. Arguing that Kurosawa's films arouse anxiety in Japanese and western critics because the films problematise Japan's self-image and the West's image of Japan, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto challenges widely-circulating cliches about the films and shows how these works constitute narrative answers to socio-cultural contradictions and institutional dilemmas. While acknowledging the achievement of Kurosawa as a filmmaker, Yoshimoto uses the director's work to reflect on and rethink a variety of larger issues, from Japanese film history, modern Japanese history, and cultural production to national identity and the global circulation of cultural capital. He examines how Japanese cinema has been "invented" in the discipline of film studies for specific ideological purposes and analyzes Kurosawa's role in that process of invention.

Table of Contents:
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



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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822324836
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Depth: 38
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 39 mm
  • Weight: 1084 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822324830
  • Publisher Date: 31 Mar 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 496
  • Series Title: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
  • Sub Title: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
  • Width: 162 mm


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