Rashomon Effects : Kurosawa, Rashomon and Their Legacies, Hardcover by Davis,...
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Rashomon Effects : Kurosawa, Rashomon and Their Legacies, Hardcover by Davis, Blair (EDT); Anderson, Robert (EDT); Walls, Jan (EDT), ISBN 1138827096, ISBN-13 9781138827097, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life’s work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon has become one of the best-known Japanese films ever made, and continues to be discussed and imitated more than 60 years after its first screening. This book examines the cultural and aesthetic impacts of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, as well as the director’s larger legacies to cinema, its global audiences and beyond. It demonstrates that these legacies are manifold: not only cinematic and artistic, but also cultural and cognitive. Th moves from an examination of one filmmaker and his immediate social context in Japan, and goes on to explore how an artist’s ideas might transcend their cultural origins to ultimately provide global influences. Discussing how Rashomon’s effects began to multiply with the film being re-imagined and repurposed in numerous media forms in the decades that followed its initial release, th also shows that the film and its ideas have been applied to a wider range of social and cultural phenomena in a variety of institutional contexts. It addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film stu
- Publisher: Routledge
- Year: 2015
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781138827097
- Condition: Fine
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