num_pages: 280
description: 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.
language: English
title: Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema
titlecomplete: Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema
genres: Film
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press