Research Catalog
The samurai film
- Title
- The samurai film / Alain Silver.
- Author
- Silver, Alain, 1947-
- Publication
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- 320 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-309), filmography (p. [259]-305), and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- I. The samurai in history -- II. Bushido, the way of the warrior -- III. The sword, "soul of the samurai" -- 1. The samurai in fiction -- I. The samurai in legend and art -- II. The samurai in film -- 2. Akira Kurosawa -- I. Pictorialism, genre typing, and social consciousness -- II. Dramatization and visual style -- 3. Genre types -- I. The Ambitious -- II. Hara-kiri and Rebellion -- 4. The alien hero -- I. The blind swordfighters : Zato Ichi and the Crimson Bat -- II. Kyoshiro Nemuri, "son of the black mass" -- III. Miyamoto Musashi -- 5. Hideo Gosha -- I. Genre typing -- II. Visual exposition : Tange Sazen and Samurai wolf -- III. The outsiders : Three outlaw samurai -- IV. Personal rebellion and social identity : Sword of the beast and Goyokin -- V. Social rebellion and personal identity : Tenchu -- VI. The lower depths : Kumekori Nazaemon, Hunter in the dark, and Death shadows -- 6. The red slayer -- I. Kihachi Okamoto -- II. Masahiro Shinoda -- III. The red slayer -- 7. Evolution of the genre -- I. Violence, East and West : the last samurai -- II. Style and political statement -- III. The samurai at the millennium.
- Call Number
- MFL 07-4327
- ISBN
- 1585675962 (hbk.)
- 9781585675968 (hbk.)
- 1585677809 (pbk.)
- 9781585677801 (pbk.)
- 0585675962 (alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2004065662
- OCLC
- 57373718
- Author
- Silver, Alain, 1947-
- Title
- The samurai film / Alain Silver.
- Imprint
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2005.
- Edition
- Expanded and rev. ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-309), filmography (p. [259]-305), and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 07-4327