Kurosawa : film studies and Japanese cinema /
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| Author / Creator: | Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro, 1961- author. |
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| Imprint: | Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000. |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( x, 485 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society Asia-Pacific. |
| Subject: | Kurosawa, Akira, -- 1910-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation. Kurosawa, Akira, -- 1910-1998 -- Critique et interprétation. Kurosawa, Akira, -- 1910-1998. Kurosawa, Akira. PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. Filmkunst. Sociale aspecten. Film. |
| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12411654 |
| Summary: | 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. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director's cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa's entire body of work, from 1943's Sanshiro Sugata to 1993's Madadayo . In scrutinizing this oeuvre, Yoshimoto shifts the ground upon which the scholarship on Japanese cinema has been built and questions its dominant interpretive frameworks and critical assumptions.<br> Arguing that Kurosawa's films arouse anxiety in Japanese and Western critics because the films problematize Japan's self-image and the West's image of Japan, Yoshimoto challenges widely circulating clichés about the films and shows how these works constitute narrative answers to sociocultural contradictions and institutional dilemmas. While fully 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. Demonstrating the richness of both this director's work and Japanese cinema in general, Yoshimoto's nuanced study illuminates an array of thematic and stylistic aspects of the films in addition to their social and historical contexts.<br> Beyond aficionados of Kurosawa and Japanese film, this book will interest those engaged with cultural studies, postcolonial studies, cultural globalization, film studies, Asian studies, and the formation of academic disciplines. <p><br></p> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( x, 485 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes filmography (pages 433-450). Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-469) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822397090 0822397099 9781306896092 1306896096 0822324830 9780822324836 0822325195 9780822325192 |
