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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Solovieva, Olga V. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2023]
Series:	Global Asias.
Subjects:	Kurosawa, Akira, > 1910-1998 > Criticism and interpretation. Kurosawa, Akira, > 1910-1998 Russian literature > Influence. Russian literature > Film adaptations. Littérature russe > Influence. Littérature russe > Adaptations cinématographiques. Japanese. Asian. LITERARY COLLECTIONS. Entertainment & Performing Arts) PERFORMING ARTS. Russian literature Russian literature > Influence Films, cinema. Performing Arts. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Film adaptations Film adaptations. Adaptations cinématographiques.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1 "Some Nice Music" : the Russian subtext of Kurosawa's films
2 "Toad in a Box" : self-restoration as people's history
3 The Idiot : where the east meets the west
4 "To live! To live how?" : Tolstoyan religion in Ikiru
5 The Lower Depths : beggar cinema, or resistance to national narcissism
6 The erased grave of Dersu Uzala : a nonwar cinema of memory and mourning
Notes
Bibliography
Index.