Description: Title: Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies Editor: Davis, Blair Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover Pages: 198 Dimensions: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.60d Product Weight: 0.9 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781138827097 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. The book 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, the book 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 studies, extending to the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely recognized English term referring to the significantly different interpretations of different eyewitnesses to the same dramatic event. As the first book on Rashomon since Donald Richie's 1987 anthology, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of film studies, film history, Japanese cinema and communication studies. It will also resonate more broadly with those interested in Japanese culture and society, anthropology and philosophy.
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Book Title: Rashomon Effects : Kurosawa, Rashomon and Their Legacies
Number of Pages: 178 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Topic: Film / General, Ethnic Studies / General, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Author: Robert Anderson
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Book Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Format: Hardcover
