The Russian Kurosawa : Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Global Asias
ISBN-10
0192866001
ISBN-13
9780192866004
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 3rd, 2023
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
772 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.40 x 2.60 cms
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Offers a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through a detailed discussion of the four films he made based on Russian sources.
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 Andrei Tarkovsky. Through a detailed discussion of the Russian subtext of Kurosawa''s cinema, most clearly manifested in the director''s films based on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, and Arseniev, the book shows that Kurosawa used Russian intertexts 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 a conformist studio filmmaker of muddled ideological alliances by offering a philosophically consistent picture of the director''s participation in postwar debates on cultural and political reconstruction.
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