ISBN: 0801846617 9780801846618

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts

Page count: 265

<p>In <i>Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema</i>, 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—<i>The Idiot</i>, <i>The Lower Depths</i>, <i>Rashomon</i>, <i>Ikiru</i>, <i>Throne of Blood</i>, and <i>Ran</i>—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.</p>