The Russian Kurosawa
Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently
Series:
Global Asias;
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 3 May 2023
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780192866004 |
ISBN10: | 0192866001 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 368 pages |
Size: | 26x164x241 mm |
Weight: | 1 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 72 Figures |
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Short description:
Offers a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through a detailed discussion of the four films he made based on Russian sources.
Long description:
The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa's debt to the intellectual tradition of Japanese-Russian democratic dissent, reflected in the affinity for Kurosawa's worldview expressed by such Russian directors as Grigory Kozintsev and Andrei Tarkovsky. Through a detailed discussion of the Russian subtext of Kurosawa's cinema, most clearly manifested in the director's films based on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, and Arseniev, the book shows that Kurosawa used Russian intertexts to deal with the most politically sensitive topics of postwar Japan. Locating the director in the cultural tradition of Russian-inflected Japanese anarchism, the book challenges prevalent views of Akira Kurosawa as an apolitical art house director or a conformist studio filmmaker of muddled ideological alliances by offering a philosophically consistent picture of the director's participation in postwar debates on cultural and political reconstruction.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
"Some Nice Music": The Russian Subtext of Kurosawa's Films
"Toad in a Box": Self-Restoration as People's History
The Idiot: Where the East Meets the West
"To live! To live how?": Tolstoyan Religion in Ikiru
The Lower Depths: Beggar Cinema, or Resistance to National Narcissism
The Erased Grave of Dersu Uzala: A Nonwar Cinema of Memory and Mourning
"Some Nice Music": The Russian Subtext of Kurosawa's Films
"Toad in a Box": Self-Restoration as People's History
The Idiot: Where the East Meets the West
"To live! To live how?": Tolstoyan Religion in Ikiru
The Lower Depths: Beggar Cinema, or Resistance to National Narcissism
The Erased Grave of Dersu Uzala: A Nonwar Cinema of Memory and Mourning