Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual CinemaIn Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema, James Goodwin draws on contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to explore the Japanese director's use of a variety of texts to create films that are uniquely intertextual and intercultural. Surveying all of Kurosawa's films and examining six films in depth—The Idiot, The Lower Depths, Rashomon, Ikiru, Throne of Blood, and Ran—Goodwin finds in Kurosawa's themes and techniques the capacity to restructure perceptions of Western and Japanese cultures and to establish new meanings in each. |
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Film Text the Intercultural Film Text | 1 |
A Life and Its Intertexts | 26 |
Russian Intertexts | 57 |
Copyright | |
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Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film Martin Halliwell No preview available - 2004 |