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OverviewOut of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami, and Zhang Yimou is a collection of interviews with, and essays about, the four filmmakers who introduced the cinema of their respective countries to the West: Kurosawa (Japan) and Ray (India), in the 1950s; Kiarostami (Iran) and Zhang (China), in the 1980s. Kurosawa and Ray were post-World War II phenomena, as the new breed of American cinephiles demanded more contact with Asian cultures of which they had known little until the 1940s. Kiarostami and Zhang, for their part, are both post-revolutionary filmmakers whose films have helpfully introduced Americans to two Eastern cultures with which the American government has long had-and continues to have-a problematic relationship. As a whole, then, Out of Asia documents an alternative to Western brands of cinema even as these four foreign directors, with the possible exception of Kiarostami, integrate Western forms, styles, and genres into their own native traditions. As such, these artists could be said to represent a global filmmaking perspective that now, more than ever, this world-and the American nation-can use.Each of the interviews in this volume is accompanied by an overview of the director's career or an essay on representative films by him. In addition, Out of Asia is preceded by a contextualizing introduction; it is followed by filmographies, a bibliography, and an index; and the book is interspersed with photographs of the four directors in question or stills from their films. There are books devoted to individual filmmakers like Kurosawa, Ray, Kiarostami, and Zhang, but, until Out of Asia, there has not been one that treats representatives of four national cinemas from their own point of view, as well as from an international perspective. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bert CardulloPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9781443800259ISBN 10: 1443800252 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 17 June 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsBert Cardullo is a perceptive interviewer and sets up some interesting comparisons between the directors Roger Macy, Screening the Past, January 2010 Author InformationBert Cardullo is Professor of Media and Communication at the Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in film history, theory, and criticism. He is the author, most recently, of Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists and Cinematic Illusions: Realism, Subjectivity, and the Avant-Garde; and he is the editor of collections of interviews with Jean Renoir, Federico Fellini, and Michelangelo Antonioni. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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