The Russian Kurosawa : Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently PDF
by Olga V. Solovieva
Part of the Global Asias series
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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 thedirector'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 viewsof 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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- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:12/04/2023
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- ISBN:9780192690838
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:12/04/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780192690838
