The Warrior's Camera (eBook)

The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa - Revised and Expanded Edition

Stephen Prince (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21418-4 (ISBN)

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The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema. Seven Samurai and Yojimbo remain enormously popular both in Japan and abroad. In this newly revised and expanded edition of his study of Kurosawa's films, Stephen Prince provides two new chapters that examine Kurosawa's remaining films, placing him in the context of cinema history. Prince also discusses how Kurosawa furnished a template for some well-known Hollywood directors, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. Providing a new and comprehensive look at this master filmmaker, The Warrior's Camera probes the complex visual structure of Kurosawa's work. The book shows how Kurosawa attempted to symbolize on film a course of national development for post-war Japan, and it traces the ways that he tied his social visions to a dynamic system of visual and narrative forms. The author analyzes Kurosawa's entire career and places the films in context by drawing on the director's autobiography--a fascinating work that presents Kurosawa as a Kurosawa character and the story of his life as the kind of spiritual odyssey witnessed so often in his films. After examining the development of Kurosawa's visual style in his early work, The Warrior's Camera explains how he used this style in subsequent films to forge a politically committed model of filmmaking. It then demonstrates how the collapse of Kurosawa's efforts to participate as a filmmaker in the tasks of social reconstruction led to the very different cinematic style evident in his most recent films, works of pessimism that view the world as resistant to change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 55 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Acting • Akira Kurosawa • Ambiguity • Ambivalence • american western • art film • Ashikaga era • awareness • Bakhtin, Mikhail • Benkei • Bertolt Brecht • Buddhism • Career • Cataclysm (Dragonlance) • Chaplin, Charles • Cinema of the United States • Cinematography • Citizen Kane • Close-up • Crushing (execution) • David Bordwell • Dersu Uzala • Determination • Dissolve (filmmaking) • Dodeskaden • donald keene • Donald Richie • Drunken Angel • economic democracy • Editing • Edo Period • Eisenstein, Sergei • Episode • Establishing shot • evocation • Film • filmmaking • Film Studies • Godard, Jean-Luc • Gorky, Maxim • Haiku • Hayasaka Fumio • His Family • Hojoki • human behavior • Iconography • Ideology • Ikiru • Individualism • In This World • Irony • japanese literature • Japanese New Wave • Kagemusha • Karma • Leonard Schrader • Leone, Sergio • literary adaptation • Literature • Long shot • Madadayo • Marxism • Melodrama • mifune • Minoru Chiaki • Modernity • Nakadai Tatsuya • Narration • narrative • narrative structure • Neo-Confucianism • NOH • noh theater • oda nobunaga • Oguni Hideo • optimism • Peckinpah, Sam • pessimism • political cinema • Politics • Postwar Japan • RAN • Red Beard • Rhapsody in August • Sam Peckinpah • Satori • Screen direction • Sengoku period • sensibility • Sergio Leone • Seven Samurai • Shimura Takashi • Silent Film • Slow Motion • Social Criticism • Social Order • Social reality • Something Like an Autobiography • Struggle (TV series) • Subjectivity • Suffering • Susumu Fujita • Symptom • Takashi Shimura • Takeda Shingen • Tatsuya Nakadai • Telephoto lens • The Hidden Fortress • The Idiot • The Lower Depths • The Other Hand • The Quiet Duel • The Remaining • The Tale of the Heike • Throne of Blood • Tokugawa period • Tracking shot • Uncertainty • Watanabe • Western Culture • Western (genre) • Westernization • World Cinema • World War II • Writing • Zaibatsu
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21418-2 / 0691214182
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21418-4 / 9780691214184