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.
General
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 1999 |
First published: |
October 1999 |
Authors: |
Stephen Prince
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Dimensions: |
235 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
440 |
Edition: |
Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-01046-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-691-01046-3 |
Barcode: |
9780691010465 |
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