Throne of Blood Paperback / softback
by Robert N. (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Watson
Part of the BFI Film Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made. In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson explores how Kurosawa draws key philosophical and psychological arguments from Shakespeare, translates them into striking visual metaphors, and inflects them through the history of post-World War II Japan.
Watson places particular emphasis on the contexts that underlie the film's central tension between individual aspiration and the stability of broader social and ecological collectives - and therefore between free will and determinism. In his foreword to this new edition, Robert Watson considers the central characters' Washizu and his wife Asaji's blunder in viewing life as a ruthless competition in which only the most brutal can thrive in the context of an era of neoliberal economics, resurgent ‘strongman’ political leaders, and myopic views of the environmenal crisis, with nothing valued that cannot be monetized.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:98 pages, 60 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/10/2020
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- ISBN:9781839021879
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:98 pages, 60 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781839021879
