Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon has become one of the best-known Japanese films ever made, and continues to be discussed and imitated more than 60 years after its first screening. This book examines the cultural and aesthetic impacts of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, as well as the director's larger legacies to cinema, its global audiences and beyond. It demonstrates that these legacies are manifold: not only cinematic and artistic, but also cultural and cognitive. The book moves from an examination of one filmmaker and his immediate social context in Japan, and goes on to explore how an artist's ideas might transcend their cultural origins to ultimately provide global influences. Discussing how Rashomon's effects began to multiply with the film being re-imagined and repurposed in numerous media forms in the decades that followed its initial release, the book also shows that the film and its ideas have been applied to a wider range of social and cultural phenomena in a variety of institutional contexts. It addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film studies, extending to the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely recognized English term referring to the significantly different interpretations of different eyewitnesses to the same dramatic event. As the first book on Rashomon since Donald Richie's 1987 anthology, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of film studies, film history, Japanese cinema and communication studies. It will also resonate more broadly with those interested in Japanese culture and society, anthropology and philosophy.

This is a collection of interviews with 26 writers of China's "zhiqing" generation, relatively young artists who participated in the Cultural Revolution as teen-age Red Guards, suffered through the subsequent rustication of intellectual youth, and eventually returned to relatively normal lives, but always with a tragic hiatus haunting their formative years. While one goal of Professor Leung is to introduce to the West an important group of writers little-known outside China, she also aims to succeed, through the interviews, in providing a special perspective on the devastating political history of China since the 1970s years through the eyes of its keenest observers and in offering a perspective on the social, political and cultural milieu of the period.

This is a collection of interviews with 26 writers of China's "zhiqing" generation, relatively young artists who participated in the Cultural Revolution as teen-age Red Guards, suffered through the subsequent rustication of intellectual youth, and eventually returned to relatively normal lives, but always with a tragic hiatus haunting their formative years. While one goal of Professor Leung is to introduce to the West an important group of writers little-known outside China, she also aims to succeed, through the interviews, in providing a special perspective on the devastating political history of China since the 1970s years through the eyes of its keenest observers and in offering a perspective on the social, political and cultural milieu of the period.

Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon has become one of the best-known Japanese films ever made, and continues to be discussed and imitated more than 60 years after its first screening. This book examines the cultural and aesthetic impacts of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, as well as the director's larger legacies to cinema, its global audiences and beyond. It demonstrates that these legacies are manifold: not only cinematic and artistic, but also cultural and cognitive. The book moves from an examination of one filmmaker and his immediate social context in Japan, and goes on to explore how an artist's ideas might transcend their cultural origins to ultimately provide global influences. Discussing how Rashomon's effects began to multiply with the film being re-imagined and repurposed in numerous media forms in the decades that followed its initial release, the book also shows that the film and its ideas have been applied to a wider range of social and cultural phenomena in a variety of institutional contexts. It addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film studies, extending to the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely recognized English term referring to the significantly different interpretations of different eyewitnesses to the same dramatic event. As the first book on Rashomon since Donald Richie's 1987 anthology, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of film studies, film history, Japanese cinema and communication studies. It will also resonate more broadly with those interested in Japanese culture and society, anthropology and philosophy.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Gerontologie / Alterswissenschaften, Note: 1,0, Universitat Vechta; fruher Hochschule Vechta (Institut fur Alterswissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1.2.1 Erkenntnisinteresse Einleitend wurde der steigende Bedarf kontinuierlicher, lebensbegleitender beruflicher Weiterbildung und somit auch der eines starkeren Einbezugs alterer Arbeitnehmer thematisiert. Da die Personalentwicklung der Unternehmen bisher primar auf eine jungere Zielgruppe ausgerichtet war (vgl. Adenauer 2002, S. 3), stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit die steigende Anzahl Alterer kunftig bei der Ausgestaltung berucksichtigt werden muss. Grund hierfur konnten z.B. andere Lernpraferenzen oder Lerngewohnheiten alterer Teilnehmer sein. Weiterbildung kann auf verschiedene Weise erfolgen, z.B. selbst-gesteuert durch den Lernenden, oder im Rahmen institutionalisierter Lernprozesse formell oder nicht- formell.1 Typische Formate in diesem Kontext sind z.B. Kurse oder Seminare, in denen Lernen dozentengesteuert stattfindet (vgl. Rossnagel 2008, S. 1). Die vorliegende Arbeit soll sich auf Letztgenanntes beschranken. Ziel ist es, anhand einschlagiger Fachliteratur Handlungsempfehlungen hinsichtlich einer alterssensiblen Ausgestaltung formeller, betrieblicher Weiterbildungsmassnahmen zu erstellen. Es soll sich dabei ausschliesslich auf die Untersuchung dozentengeleiteter Kurse und Seminare2 konzentriert werden. Insbesondre soll untersucht werden - welche kognitiven Fahigkeiten im Alter abbauen und wie diese die Lernfahigkeit beeinflussen, - welche Anforderungen hinsichtlich Didaktik und Methodik bei der Aufbereitung der Kurse an den Dozenten bestehen und - welche Art der Teilnehmerzusammensetzung in den Kursen empfohlen, bzw. praferiert wird. Beachtung finden soll weiterhin, inwieweit unterschiedliche Bildungsvoraussetzungen und die Lernpraxis der Teilnehmer bei der Ausgestaltung berucksichtigt werden muss