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Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
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Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema Paperback - 2000

by Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro

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Duke University Press, 2000. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9780822325192
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  • Title Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
  • Author Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9487673
  • ISBN 9780822325192 / 0822325195
  • Weight 1.64 lbs (0.74 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.99 x 1.28 in (22.86 x 15.21 x 3.25 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
  • Library of Congress subjects Kurosawa, Akira - Criticism and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99056661
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

From the publisher

The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director's cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa's entire body of work, from 1943's Sanshiro Sugata to 1993's Madadayo. In scrutinizing this oeuvre, Yoshimoto shifts the ground upon which the scholarship on Japanese cinema has been built and questions its dominant interpretive frameworks and critical assumptions.
Arguing that Kurosawa's films arouse anxiety in Japanese and Western critics because the films problematize Japan's self-image and the West's image of Japan, Yoshimoto challenges widely circulating clichs about the films and shows how these works constitute narrative answers to sociocultural contradictions and institutional dilemmas. While fully acknowledging the achievement of Kurosawa as a filmmaker, Yoshimoto uses the director's work to reflect on and rethink a variety of larger issues, from Japanese film history, modern Japanese history, and cultural production to national identity and the global circulation of cultural capital. He examines how Japanese cinema has been "invented" in the discipline of film studies for specific ideological purposes and analyzes Kurosawa's role in that process of invention. Demonstrating the richness of both this director's work and Japanese cinema in general, Yoshimoto's nuanced study illuminates an array of thematic and stylistic aspects of the films in addition to their social and historical contexts.
Beyond aficionados of Kurosawa and Japanese film, this book will interest those engaged with cultural studies, postcolonial studies, cultural globalization, film studies, Asian studies, and the formation of academic disciplines.


First line

After having experienced two decades of rapid institutional expansion and consolidation, film studies is now facing a new challenge.

From the rear cover

"A tour-de-force reading of Kurosawa's films. Yoshimoto adds greatly to current Kurasawa scholarship and to situating the construct 'Japanese Cinema' in a way that it has not been situated before."--E. Ann Kaplan, author of "Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze"

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Citations

  • Choice, 11/01/2000, Page 543

About the author

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto is Associate Professor of Japanese, Cinema, and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

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