Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema - Paperback

by James Goodwin (Author)

In Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema, 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--The Idiot, The Lower Depths, Rashomon, Ikiru, Throne of Blood, and Ran--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.

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In this book, the author draws on contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to explore Kurosawa's use of a variety of texts to create cinema that is uniquely intertextual and intercultural.

Author Biography

James Goodwin is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.