Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and Their Legacies

ISBN-13: 9781138590663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 178 str.

Blair Davis; Robert Anderson; Jan Walls

Opis

Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon has arguably become the best known Japanese film of all time. This book addresses issues beyond the realm of Rashomon within film studies, and the Rashomon effect, which itself has become a widely recognized English term referring to significantly different perspectives of eyewitnesses to the same dramatic event.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. From Konjaku and Bierce to Akutagawa to Kurosawa: Ripples and the Evolution of Rashomon 3. ‘Smiled on by Lady Luck: Rashomon’ 4. The Production History of Rashomon 5. Rashomon Perceived – The Challenge of Forging a Transnationally Shared View of Kurosawa’s Legacy 6. Rashomon as a Twelfth Century Period Picture and Occupation Period Social Critique 7. What is the Rashomon Effect? 8. The Rashomon Effect: Considerations of Existential Anthropology 9. Screening Truths: Rashomon and Cinematic Negotiation 10. Reflections on Rashomon, Kurosawa and the Japanese Audience 11. Kurosawa’s International Legacy 12. Dialogue on Kurosawa: Nationality, Technique, Life Work 13. Conclusion: Ripples and Effects