{"product_id":"kurosawa-9780822325192","title":"Kurosawa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eSanshiro Sugata\u003c\/i\u003e to 1993’s \u003ci\u003eMadadayo\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cbr\u003eArguing 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A tour-de-force reading of Kurosawa’s films. Yoshimoto adds greatly to current Kurasawa scholarship and to situating the construct ‘Japanese Cinema’ in a way that it has not been situated before.”—E. Ann Kaplan, author of \u003ci\u003eLooking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yoshimoto’s \u003ci\u003eKurosawa\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to take its place along with the most important achievements of cinema studies, which is to say that it is a book about something more than cinema itself. Yet it offers a stimulating, running commentary on the films that makes one want to see them all over again, while also offering a new theory of auteurship as collective negotiation. This is a grand performance sustained by a voice of rare authority.”—Fredric Jameson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI Japanese Cinema in Search of a Discipline\u003c\/b\u003e 7\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eII The Films of Kurosawa Akira\u003c\/b\u003e 51\u003cbr\u003e Kurosawa Criticism and the Name of the Author 53\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSanshiro Sugata\u003c\/i\u003e 69\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Most Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e 81\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSanshiro Sagata, Part 2\u003c\/i\u003e 89\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail\u003c\/i\u003e 93\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNo Regrets for Our Youth\u003c\/i\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOne Wonderful Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e 135\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDrunken Angel\u003c\/i\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Duel\u003c\/i\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStray Dog\u003c\/i\u003e 147\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eScandal\u003c\/i\u003e 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRashomon\u003c\/i\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIkiru\u003c\/i\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSeven Samurai\u003c\/i\u003e 205\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRecord of a Living Being\u003c\/i\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThrone of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Lower Depths\u003c\/i\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Fortress\u003c\/i\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Sleep Well\u003c\/i\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYojimbo\u003c\/i\u003e 289\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSanjuro\u003c\/i\u003e 293\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHigh and Low\u003c\/i\u003e 303\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRed Beard\u003c\/i\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDodeskaden\u003c\/i\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDersu Uzala\u003c\/i\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKagemusha\u003c\/i\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRan\u003c\/i\u003e 355\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDreams\u003c\/i\u003e 359\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRhapsody in August\u003c\/i\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMadadayo\u003c\/i\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 375\u003cbr\u003e Notes 379\u003cbr\u003e Filmography 433\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 451\u003cbr\u003e Index 471\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406025498967,"sku":"9780822325192","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822325192.jpg?v=1730494285","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kurosawa-9780822325192","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}