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.
- | Author: James Goodwin
- | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 01, 1993
- | Number of Pages: 280 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0801846617
- | ISBN-13: 9780801846618
