Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) Paperback / softback
by Dudley (Yale University, USA) Andrew, Carole (Middlebury College, USA) Cavanaugh
Part of the BFI Film Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sanshô Dayû (1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies.
In his absence, his children fall under the corrupting influence of the malevolent bailiff Sansho.
In their study of the film, film scholar Dudley Andrew and Japanese literature professor Carole Cavanaugh highlight the cultural, aesthetic and social contexts of this film which is at once rooted in folk legend and a modern artwork released in the aftermath of World War II.
This edition includes a new foreword by the authors in which they consider the film's contemporary parallels in modern slavery and children torn from their families by malevolent authorities.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, 60 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:28/05/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781838719326
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, 60 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:28/05/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781838719326
