Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema

by James Goodwin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801846617
• ISBN13: 9780801846618
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher