The Russian Kurosawa : transnational cinema, or the art of speaking differently /
The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa's debt to the intellectual tradition of Japanese-Russian democratic dissent, reflected in the affinity for Kurosawa's worldview expressed by such...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
[2023]
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| Series: | Global Asias.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa's debt to the intellectual tradition of Japanese-Russian democratic dissent, reflected in the affinity for Kurosawa's worldview expressed by such Russian directors as Grigory Kozintsev and Arseny Tarkovsky. Through detailed discussion of the Russian subtext of Kurosawa's cinema, most clearly manifested in the director's films based on the works of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, and Arseniev, the book shows that Kurosawa used Russian intertext to deal with the most politically sensitive topics of postwar Japan. Locating the director in the cultural tradition of Russian-inflected Japanese anarchism, the book challenges prevalent views of Akira Kurosawa as an apolitical art-house director or conformist studio filmmaker of muddled ideological alliances by offering a philosophically consistent picture of the director's participation in post-war debate on cultural and political reconstruction. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0192690841 9780192690838 0192690833 9780191956744 0191956740 9780192690845 |