LEADER 04761nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910822617703321 005 20240131143750.0 010 $a0-8223-9709-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822397090 035 $a(CKB)3710000000140559 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10884574 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001196651 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12523823 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001196651 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11166446 035 $a(PQKB)10768894 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007868 035 $a(DE-B1597)554416 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822397090 035 $a(OCoLC)1226679038 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000140559 100 $a20150424d2000|||| s|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAsia-Pacific : Culture, Politics, and Society : Kurosawa : Film Studies and Japanese Cinema$b[electronic resource] 210 $aDurham, NC, USA$cDuke University Press$d20000301 210 $cDuke University Press 215 $a1 online resource (497 p.) 225 0 $aAsia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society Kurosawa 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-306-89609-6 311 $a0-8223-2483-0 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPART I JAPANESE CINEMA IN SEARCH OF A DISCIPLINE --$tIntroduction --$tPART II THE FILMS OF KUROSAWA AKIRA --$t1. Kurosawa Criticism and the Name of the Author --$t2. Sanshiro Sugata --$t3. The Most Beautiful --$t4. Sanshiro Sugata, Part 2 --$t5. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail --$t6. No Regrets for Our Youth --$t7. One Wonderful Sunday --$t8. Drunken Angel --$t9. The Quiet Duel --$t10. Stray Dog --$t11. Scandal --$t12. Rashomon --$t13. The Idiot --$t14. Ikiru --$t15. Seven Samurai --$t16. Record of a Living Being --$t17. Throne of Blood --$t18. The Lower Depths --$t19. The Hidden Fortress --$t20. The Bad Sleep Well --$t21. Yojimbo --$t22. Sanjuro --$t23. High and Low --$t24. Red Beard --$t25. Dodeskaden --$t26. Dersu Uzala --$t27. Kagemusha --$t28. Ran --$t29. Dreams --$t30. Rhapsody in August --$t31. Madadayo --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tFilmography --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director?s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa?s entire body of work, from 1943?s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993?s Madadayo. In scrutinizing this oeuvre, Yoshimoto shifts the ground upon which the scholarship on Japanese cinema has been built and questions its dominant interpretive frameworks and critical assumptions.Arguing that Kurosawa?s films arouse anxiety in Japanese and Western critics because the films problematize Japan?s self-image and the West?s image of Japan, Yoshimoto challenges widely circulating clichés about the films and shows how these works constitute narrative answers to sociocultural contradictions and institutional dilemmas. While fully acknowledging the achievement of Kurosawa as a filmmaker, Yoshimoto uses the director?s work to reflect on and rethink a variety of larger issues, from Japanese film history, modern Japanese history, and cultural production to national identity and the global circulation of cultural capital. He examines how Japanese cinema has been ?invented? in the discipline of film studies for specific ideological purposes and analyzes Kurosawa?s role in that process of invention. Demonstrating the richness of both this director?s work and Japanese cinema in general, Yoshimoto?s nuanced study illuminates an array of thematic and stylistic aspects of the films in addition to their social and historical contexts.Beyond aficionados of Kurosawa and Japanese film, this book will interest those engaged with cultural studies, postcolonial studies, cultural globalization, film studies, Asian studies, and the formation of academic disciplines. 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS$2bisac 606 $aFilm & Video / History & Criticism$2bisac 606 $aMusic, Dance, Drama & Film$2HILCC 606 $aFilm$2HILCC 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS 615 7$aFilm & Video / History & Criticism 615 7$aMusic, Dance, Drama & Film 615 7$aFilm 676 $a791.43/0233/092 686 $aAP 59763$2rvk 700 $aYoshimoto$b Mitsuhiro$f1961-$01660979 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822617703321 996 $aAsia-Pacific : Culture, Politics, and Society : Kurosawa : Film Studies and Japanese Cinema$94016580 997 $aUNINA