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Akira Kurosawa: Interviews
Akira KurosawaThis work includes the collected interviews with the first Japanese film director to become widely known in the West when his film "Rashomon" won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951.
The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
Stephen PrinceThe book shows how Kurosawa attempted to symbolize on film a course of national development for post-war Japan, and it traces the ways that he tied his social visions to a dynamic system of visual and narrative forms.
Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi
Adam BinghamSuch films as did find a receptive audience tended to be those by established auteurs (Kurosawa Akira, Oshima Nagisa, Imamura Shohei, etc.), and many of these were produced with significant foreign investment. Films such as Kurosawa's ...
Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global ...
D. MartinezThrough the lens of Akira Kurosawa's films, Martinez dissects the human tendency to make connections in a pioneering attempt to build a bridge out of diverse materials: the anthropology of Japan, film studies, and postmodern theory.
Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global ...
Dolores MartinezThrough the lens of Akira Kurosawa's films, Martinez dissects the human tendency to make connections in apioneering attempt to build a bridge out of diverse materials: the anthropology of Japan, film studies, and postmodern theory.
Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global ...
Dolores MartinezThrough the lens of Akira Kurosawa's films, Martinez dissects the human tendency to make connections in a pioneering attempt to build a bridge out of diverse materials: the anthropology of Japan, film studies, and postmodern theory.
Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans:
Mark Thornton BurnettIn this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Grigori Kozintsev and Franco Zeffirelli to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays.
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
Mitsuhiro YoshimotoThis work will become not only the newly definitive study of Kurosawa, but will redefine the field of Japanese cinema studies, particularly as the field exists in the west. "A tour-de-force reading of Kurosawa's films.
Arnold Newman: Five Decades
Arnold NewmanGathers portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Geoffrey Holder, Akira Kurosawa, Al Hirschfeld, Jasper Johns, George Segal, David Hockney, Ansel Adams, Henry Miller, Igor Stravinsky, and Marilyn Monroe
Japan's Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship
John HaffnerWriters like ENDO Shusaku, ABE Kobo, OSARAGI Jiro, as well as some of Japan's leading cinema directors, including KUROSAWA Akira, OSHIMA Nagisa, IMAMURA Shohei and MIZOGUCHI Kenji, were highly critical of the war and of ...
Kurosawa: film studies and Japanese cinema
Mitsuhiro YoshimotoAssistant directors: Nonagase Samaji, Tajitsu Tairyo, Sakano Yoshimitsu, Sano Takashi, Matsue Yoichi, and Takase ... Mihashi Tatsuya (his son Tatsuo), Shimura Takashi (Moriyama), Nishimura Akira (Shirai), Fujiwara Kamatari (Wada ), Sugai ...
Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and Their Legacies
PreviewKurosawa, Rashomon and Their Legacies Blair Davis, Robert Anderson, Jan Walls. In Chapter 8, Nur Yalman explores the role of the Rashomon effect in anthropological thinking – where anthropologists have to understand the purposes and ...
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: ...
Akira Iriyeand Chinese Communists (Ithaca, 1971); Marc Gallicchio, The Cold War Begins in Asia (New York, 1988); Tang Tsou, America's Failure in China (Chicago, 1963 ); Akira Iriye, The Cold War in Asia (New York, 1974); Zheng Yangwen, Hong Liu, ...
Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited
Catherine RussellIncluding studies of landmark films by Ozu, Kurosawa and other directors, this book provides a perfect introduction to a crucial and often misunderstood area of Japanese cultural output.
Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans:
Courtney LehmannHowever, as Elihu Pearlman remarks, 'Throne of Blood can be thought of as ending three times' (Pearlman, 1986, 71). The death of the protagonist himself is at the hands – or rather arrows – of his own soldiers, which, although treasonable , ...
Chemokines in the Lung
PreviewJ Immunol 162:2946. Ying S, Q Meng, K Zeibecoglou, DS Robinson, A Macfarlane, M Humbert, AB Kay. 1999. ... J Immunol 165:2748. Matsukura S, C Stellato, SN Georas, V Casolaro, JR Plitt, K Miura, S Kurosawa, USchindler, RP Schleimer.
Food and the City in Europe since 1800
Peter LummelAttempts at authentication are mainly to be found upmarket, for instance the famous Japanese chef Akira Oshima at the Okura Hotel. Differentiation also took place in the exotic restaurants, representing other continents, while the category ...
Cinematic Cuts: Theorizing Film Endings
PreviewMitsuhiro Yoshimoto, in his magisterial monograph on Kurosawa, examines space in the film in social and historical terms, to great effect. However here, for reasons I will go on to provide, I consider space in more formal terms. See Mitsuhiro ...
Hypothermia for Acute Brain Damage: Pathomechanism and ...
PreviewAKIRA UTAGAWA, ATSUSHI SAKURAI, KosAKU KINosHITA, TAKASHI MORIYA, and NARIYUKI HAYASHI Summary. The immune-enhancing effect of arginine was evaluated in 32 traumatic braininjured patients who had undergone ...
Plunging Through the Clouds: Constructive Living Currents
PreviewAnd a year later in 1984 a five-day intensive was arranged for two participants at the Health Center Pacific on Maui. In March of 1989 Akira lshii, a Japanese law professor,. Shidosha Patricia Ryan Madson 121.
Risky Business 1989: Paying for Prevention : Proceedings of ...
Society of Prospective Medicine. Meeting30 Mitsuo Miura, B.Sc, Ma6akazu Nakamura, M.D., Akira Oshima, M.D. A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF JAPANESE HRA ON SMOKING CESSATION : INTERVENTIONS, METHODS, AND DESIGN 38 ...
Path Integrals and Coherent States of SU(2) and SU(1,1)
Akira InomataApplications to problems in quantum optics such as squeezed states, interaction with the squeezed vacuum states, and phase operator formalism are also included.This book will be useful as an introduction to the subject as well as a valuable ...
Japan Company Handbook: Second section
More editions... Mizuho Corporate Bank (4.3), Employees' Stockholding (2.6), Fukushima Bank (1 .9), Shinsei Bank (1 .8), Nichido F.& M.lns. (1 .8), Daito Bank (1 .6), Aozora Bank (1 .5), Akira Takahashi (1.4), Kenji Hasegawa (1.2), Yamagata Kyoritsu Co.
Night+Day Amsterdam
Neil CarlsonA minimalist Eastern interior and great selection of sake are the perfect complements to Akira Oshima's creations, fueling the Buddhist-like devotion of loyal diners. Daily noon-2pm and 6-9:30pm. €€€ ¤ Hot Tip: Request a table overlooking the ...
Japanese Tales from Times Past: Stories of Fantasy and ...
PreviewThanks to Karen Thornber for her support and comments, and for contributing the foreword. Thanks also to Professor Scott Slovic for his comments and support. Discussions with Professors Koichi Kansaku, Akira Suganuma, and David Bialock ...
Yamazato: Les secrets de la cuisine japonaise
Akira OshimaCet ouvrage présente vingt-deux recettes appartenant à la cuisine kaiseki, c'est-à-dire à la haute gastronomie japonaise, photographiées et expliquées pas à pas.
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Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited
Catherine RussellMitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema, 2. Galbraith, The Emperor and the Wolf, 220. Ibid., 121. Ibid., 389. Gilles Deleuze, Cinema One: The MovementImage, 188. Galbraith, The Emperor and the Wolf, 354.
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