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The Russian Kurosawa : transnational cinema, or the art of speaking differently / Olga V. Solovieva.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solovieva, Olga V., author.
- Series:
- Global Asias.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Global Asias
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Russian literature--Influence.
- Russian literature.
- Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kurosawa, Akira.
- Genre:
- Film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (370 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- '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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- My Reading
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. "Some Nice Music": The Russian Subtext of Kurosawa's Films
- 2. "Toad in a Box": Self-Restoration as People's History
- 3. The Idiot: Where the East Meets the West
- 4. "To live! To live how?": Tolstoyan Religion in Ikiru
- 5. The Lower Depths: Beggar Cinema, or Resistance to National Narcissism
- 6. The Erased Grave of Dersu Uzala: A Nonwar Cinema of Memory and Mourning
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Solovieva, Olga V. The Russian Kurosawa
- ISBN:
- 9780191956744
- 0191956740
- 9780192690845
- 0192690841
- 9780192690838
- 0192690833
- OCLC:
- 1376194202
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