Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema

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
Published: 11/01/1993
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.55w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780801846618

About the Author

James Goodwin is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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