The Warrior's Camera The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa - Revised and Expanded Edition / Stephen Prince.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prince, Stephen, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910---Crítica e interpretación.

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998--Crítica e interpretación.

Cine--Producción y dirección--Japón.

Cine.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 344 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1991.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Viewing Kurosawa

2 The Dialectics of Style

3 Willpower Can Cure All Human Ailments

4 Experiments and Adaptations

5 Form and the Modern World

6 History and the Period Film

7 Years of Transition

8 The Final Period

9 The Legacy

Notes

Films Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"Films directed by Akira Kurosawa: page [327]."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-338) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691031606

0691031606

9780691214184

0691214182

OCLC:

1227051191