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The Russian Kurosawa : transnational cinema, or the art of speaking differently
- Title
- The Russian Kurosawa : transnational cinema, or the art of speaking differently / Olga V. Solovieva.
- Author
- Solovieva, Olga V.
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
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- Description
- xvii, 338 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa's debt to the intellectual tradition of Japanese-Russian democratic dissent, reflected in the affinity for Kurosawa's worldview expressed by such Russian directors as Grigory Kozintsev and Andrei Tarkovsky. Through a detailed discussion of the Russian subtext of Kurosawa's cinema, most clearly manifested in the director's films based on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, and Arseniev, the book shows that Kurosawa used Russian intertexts to deal with the most politically sensitive topics of postwar Japan. Locating the director in the cultural tradition of Russian-inflected Japanese anarchism, the book challenges prevalent views of Akira Kurosawa as an apolitical art house director or a conformist studio filmmaker of muddled ideological alliances by offering a philosophically consistent picture of the director's participation in postwar debates on cultural and political reconstruction. --
- Series Statement
- Global Asias
- Uniform Title
- Global Asias.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ([316]-327) and index.
- Contents
- 1 "Some Nice Music" : the Russian subtext of Kurosawa's films -- 2 "Toad in a Box" : self-restoration as people's history -- 3 The Idiot : where the east meets the west -- 4 "To live! To live how?" : Tolstoyan religion in Ikiru -- 5 The Lower Depths : beggar cinema, or resistance to national narcissism -- 6 The erased grave of Dersu Uzala : a nonwar cinema of memory and mourning.
- Call Number
- MFL 23-4250
- ISBN
- 0192866001
- 9780192866004
- OCLC
- 1329420739
- Author
- Solovieva, Olga V., author.
- Title
- The Russian Kurosawa : transnational cinema, or the art of speaking differently / Olga V. Solovieva.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Global AsiasGlobal Asias.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references ([316]-327) and index.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Solovieva, Olga V. Russian Kurosawa. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 9780192690845 (OCoLC)1379193858
- Research Call Number
- MFL 23-4250