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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mitsuhiro YoshimotoPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.084kg ISBN: 9780822324836ISBN 10: 0822324830 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 31 March 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 1 I Japanese Cinema in Search of a Discipline 7 II The Films of Kurosawa Akira 51 Kurosawa Criticism and the Name of the Author 53 Sanshiro Sugata 69 The Most Beautiful 81 Sanshiro Sagata, Part 2 89 The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail 93 No Regrets for Our Youth 114 One Wonderful Sunday 135 Drunken Angel 138 The Quiet Duel 140 Stray Dog 147 Scandal 179 Rashomon 182 The Idiot 190 Ikiru 194 Seven Samurai 205 Record of a Living Being 246 Throne of Blood 250 The Lower Depths 270 The Hidden Fortress 272 The Bad Sleep Well 274 Yojimbo 289 Sanjuro 293 High and Low 303 Red Beard 332 Dodeskaden 334 Dersu Uzala 344 Kagemusha 348 Ran 355 Dreams 359 Rhapsody in August 364 Madadayo 372 Epilogue 375 Notes 379 Filmography 433 Bibliography 451 Index 471ReviewsYoshimoto's Kurosawa is destined to take its place along with the most important achievements of cinema studies, which is to say that it is a book about something more than cinema itself. Yet it offers a stimulating, running commentary on the films that makes one want to see them all over again, while also offering a new theory of auteurship as collective negotiation. This is a grand performance sustained by a voice of rare authority. --Fredric Jameson [*Note: We'll need to run this edit by him.] A tour-de-force reading of Kurosawa's films. Yoshimoto adds greatly to current Kurasawa scholarship and to situating the construct 'Japanese Cinema' in a way that it has not been situated before. --[PERMISSION PENDING] [RR, PP, edited] E. Ann Kaplan, author of Looking for the Other: Feminism and the Imperial Gaze [Yoshimoto's] primary concern, as an academic working in the United States, is with western criticism of Japanese cinema as it moved from humanism to structuralism, to post-structuralism and to postmodernism. His erudite and near-comprehensive book is about what we non-Japanese understand in the work of Kurosawa. He finds much of our understanding tainted because it views Japan and Japanese cinema in an exotic light... Yoshimoto's aim is to build up a detailed case that westerners do not understand Kurosawa. If we think we do, he implies, we are wrong, because we know so little of Japanese culture...He tries to help us by giving a full account of the context in which Kurosawa worked and in which his films were made. It is something of a crash course: cinema, theatre, society, politics, history and so on. His knowledge is encyclopedic and his scholarship impressive. --Mamoun Hassan, Times Higher Education Supplement, December 15 2000 Yoshimoto's Kurosawa is destined to take its place along with the most important achievements of cinema studies, which is to say that it is a book about something more than cinema itself. Yet it offers a stimulating, running commentary on the films that makes one want to see them all over again, while also offering a new theory of auteurship as collective negotiation. This is a grand performance sustained by a voice of rare authority. --Fredric Jameson [*Note: We'll need to run this edit by him.] A tour-de-force reading of Kurosawa's films. Yoshimoto adds greatly to current Kurasawa scholarship and to situating the construct 'Japanese Cinema' in a way that it has not been situated before. --[PERMISSION PENDING] [RR, PP, edited] E. Ann Kaplan, author of Looking for the Other: Feminism and the Imperial Gaze [Yoshimoto's] primary concern, as an academic working in the United States, is with western criticism of Japanese cinema as it moved from humanism to structuralism, to post-structuralism and to postmodernism. His erudite and near-comprehensive book is about what we non-Japanese understand in the work of Kurosawa. He finds much of our understanding tainted because it views Japan and Japanese cinema in an exotic light... Yoshimoto's aim is to build up a detailed case that westerners do not understand Kurosawa. If we think we do, he implies, we are wrong, because we know so little of Japanese culture...He tries to help us by giving a full account of the context in which Kurosawa worked and in which his films were made. It is something of a crash course: cinema, theatre, society, politics, history and so on. His knowledge is encyclopedic and his scholarship impressive. --Mamoun Hassan, Times Higher Education Supplement, December 15 2000 A tour-de-force reading of Kurosawa's films. Yoshimoto adds greatly to current Kurasawa scholarship and to situating the construct 'Japanese Cinema' in a way that it has not been situated before. -E. Ann Kaplan, author of Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze Yoshimoto's Kurosawa is destined to take its place along with the most important achievements of cinema studies, which is to say that it is a book about something more than cinema itself. Yet it offers a stimulating, running commentary on the films that makes one want to see them all over again, while also offering a new theory of auteurship as collective negotiation. This is a grand performance sustained by a voice of rare authority. -Fredric Jameson Author InformationMitsuhiro Yoshimoto is Associate Professor of Japanese, Cinema, and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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