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Kurosawa's Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films

Paul Anderer
Kurosawa s Rashomon A Vanished City a Lost Brother and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films Book PDF

Author : Paul Anderer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781681772776

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Kurosawa's Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films by Paul Anderer Pdf

A groundbreaking investigation into the early life of the iconic Akira Kurosawa in connection to his most famous film—taking us deeper into Kurosawa and his world. Although he is a filmmaker of international renown, Kurosawa and the story of his formative years remain as enigmatic as his own Rashomon. Paul Anderer looks back at Kurosawa before he became famous, taking us into the turbulent world that made him. We encounter Tokyo, Kurosawa’s birthplace, which would be destroyed twice before his eyes; explore early twentieth-century Japan amid sweeping cross-cultural changes; and confront profound family tragedy alongside the horror of war. From these multiple angles we see how Kurosawa’s life and work speak to the epic narrative of modern Japan’s rise and fall. With fresh insights and vivid prose, Anderer engages the Great Earthquake of 1923, the dynamic energy that surged through Tokyo in its wake, and its impact on Kurosawa as a youth. When the city is destroyed again, in the fire-bombings of 1945, Anderer reveals how Kurosawa grappled with the trauma of war and its aftermath, and forged his artistic vision. Finally, he resurrects the specter and the voice of a gifted and troubled older brother—himself a star in the silent film industry—who took Kurosawa to see his first films, and who led a rebellious life until his desperate end. Bringing these formative forces into focus, Anderer looks beyond the aura of Kurosawa’s fame and leads us deeper into the tragedies and the challenges of his past. Kurosawa’s Rashomon uncovers how a film like Rashomon came to be, and why it endures to illuminate the shadows and the challenges of our present.

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Book PDF

Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141902876

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Pdf

Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as ‘Death Register’, ‘The Life of a Stupid Man’ and ‘Spinning Gears’, Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.

Rashomon Effects

Blair Davis,Robert Anderson,Jan Walls
Rashomon Effects Book PDF

Author : Blair Davis,Robert Anderson,Jan Walls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317574637

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Rashomon Effects by Blair Davis,Robert Anderson,Jan Walls Pdf

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.

Rashomon

Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Rashomon Book PDF

Author : Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976222311

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Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke Pdf

Turned into a film by Akira Kurosawa, now available for free at archive.org.

Rashômon book 1

mkdeville
Rash mon book 1 Book PDF

Author : mkdeville
Publisher : Graphic Gymnaz Club
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9791092078053

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A lumberjack finds the body of a slaughtered samurai. A thief incriminates himself and begs to be hanged. The deceased’s widow also says she’s the murderer. The samurai, by way of a medium (a witch), claims he killed himself. When certitude crumble to leave room to appearance, do facts turn into illusion, like reflections in a multifaceted mirror? Rashômon explores these facets.

Akutagawa's Rashomon and Other Stories

Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Akutagawa s Rashomon and Other Stories Book PDF

Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781462924813

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Akutagawa's Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Pdf

A famous samurai murder mystery finally brought to life in graphic novel form! A sword-swinging samurai, a corpse-robbing crone and a falsely accused trans man stand at the center of these four iconic tales, once the inspiration for a classic film, now turned into stunning graphic novellas. The stories in this volume by Ryunosuke Akutagawa — the renowned "father of the Japanese short story" are captured by manga masters mkdeville and Philippe Nicloux in these four action-packed adaptations: Rashomon: A houseless servant pits morality against survival in a post-apocalyptic world where thievery and the desecration of the dead are necessary for survival In the Grove: Conflicting statements and competing narratives call into question the notion of objective truth in a searing tale of rape and revenge Otomi's Virginity: Pride, honor and dignity are at stake when a young servant is confronted by an unexpected aggressor at her employer's abandoned house The Martyr: A pious Jesuit with a dark secret faces excommunication and death in 16th-century Japan, when Christianity was introduced and then banned by order of the Shogun Stunning graphic adaptations by mkdeville and Philippe Nicloux turn these iconic tales into thrilling page-turners, following in the footsteps of the famous Kurosawa film.

Rashomon Effects

Blair Davis,Robert Anderson,Jan Walls
Rashomon Effects Book PDF

Author : Blair Davis,Robert Anderson,Jan Walls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317574644

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Rashomon Effects by Blair Davis,Robert Anderson,Jan Walls Pdf

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.

Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case

Victor Santos
Rashomon A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case Book PDF

Author : Victor Santos
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781630088989

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Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case by Victor Santos Pdf

Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love) writes and illustrates a crime and mystery story inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s tales featuring the heroic commissioner Heigo Kobayashi When the body of a skilled samurai is found along the road to Yamashina in feudal Japan, the search begins for his killer. Detective Heigo Kobayashi takes the case but finds only dead-end clues and no firsthand witnesses.

The Warrior's Camera

Stephen Prince
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Author : Stephen Prince
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0691010463

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The Warrior's Camera by Stephen Prince Pdf

The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema. Seven Samurai and Yojimbo remain enormously popular both in Japan and abroad. In this newly revised and expanded edition of his study of Kurosawa's films, Stephen Prince provides two new chapters that examine Kurosawa's remaining films, placing him in the context of cinema history. Prince also discusses how Kurosawa furnished a template for some well-known Hollywood directors, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. Providing a new and comprehensive look at this master filmmaker, The Warrior's Camera probes the complex visual structure of Kurosawa's work. The 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. The author analyzes Kurosawa's entire career and places the films in context by drawing on the director's autobiography--a fascinating work that presents Kurosawa as a Kurosawa character and the story of his life as the kind of spiritual odyssey witnessed so often in his films. After examining the development of Kurosawa's visual style in his early work, The Warrior's Camera explains how he used this style in subsequent films to forge a politically committed model of filmmaking. It then demonstrates how the collapse of Kurosawa's efforts to participate as a filmmaker in the tasks of social reconstruction led to the very different cinematic style evident in his most recent films, works of pessimism that view the world as resistant to change.

Film and Knowledge

Kevin L. Stoehr
Film and Knowledge Book PDF

Author : Kevin L. Stoehr
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786481903

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Film and Knowledge by Kevin L. Stoehr Pdf

Film has become such an underpinning of art and pop culture that its potential for inspiring serious thought is often overlooked. Our intellectual involvement with film has been minimized as more in the audience want to be merely amazed and entertained. Essays written by both established and cutting-edge philosophers of film concentrate in this work on the value of film in general and the value of certain films in particular for the study and teaching of ideas. The essays explore such topics as the significance of narrative unity for self knowledge in David Lynch’s Lost Highway and in Paul Schrader’s Affliction; ambiguity and responsibility in Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon; consciousness and cognition in Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane; skepticism in Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion and David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch; language and gender in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game; Platonic idealism in Chris Marker’s La Jetée; race in Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam; the concept of the imagination in cognitive film theory; and the role of ideology in feminist film theory. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa,Donald Richie
Rashomon Book PDF

Author : Akira Kurosawa,Donald Richie
Publisher : Rutgers Films in Print
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39076001198121

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Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa,Donald Richie Pdf

"Rashomon" is one of the greatest of Japanese director Akira Kurasowa's films and the winner of the Academy Award for best foreign picture in 1952. It features Toshiru Mifune, the best-known Japanese actor in the West, as "the bandit", an accused rapist and murderer. This volume brings together the full continuity script of "Rashomon", an essay by Donald Richie on "Rashomon", the Akutagawa Stories upon which the film is based, critical reviews and commentaries on the film and a filmography.

Rashomon and Other Stories

Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon and Other Stories Book PDF

Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462900114

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Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Pdf

"Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity… Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surface." --The New York Times Book Review Widely acknowledged as "the father of the Japanese short story," Ryunosuke Akutagawa remains one of the most influential Japanese writers of all time. Rashomon and Other Stories, a collection of his most celebrated work, resonates as strongly today as when it first published a century ago. This volume includes: In a Grove: An iconic, contradictory tale of the murder of a samurai in a forest near Kyoto told through three varying accounts Rashomon: A masterless samurai contemplates following a life of crime as he encounters an old woman at the old Rashomon gate outside Kyoto Yam Gruel: A low-ranking court official laments his position all the while yearning for his favorite, yet humble, dish The Martyr: Set in Japan's Christian missionary era, a young boy is excommunicated for fathering an illegitimate child, but not all is as it seems Kesa and Morito: An adulterous couple plots to kill the woman's husband as the situation threatens to spin out of control The Dragon: A priest concocts a prank involving a dragon, but the tall tale begins to take on a life of its own With a new foreward by noted Akutagawa scholar Seiji Lippit, this updated version of a classic collection is a an excellent, readable introduction to Japanese literature.

Essentials of Mass Communication Theory

Arthur Asa Berger
Essentials of Mass Communication Theory Book PDF

Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803973578

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Essentials of Mass Communication Theory by Arthur Asa Berger Pdf

'Solid and elegantly written introduction to its subject, up to speed with the current movements in the field, this is an excellent textbook for first-year students. The layout is well-conceived, and interspersed with Berger's own whimsical cartoons' - Sight and Sound

A Hazardous Inquiry

Allan Mazur
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Author : Allan Mazur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0674748336

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A Hazardous Inquiry by Allan Mazur Pdf

Love Canal--a community poisoned by toxic waste. Borrowing the multi-viewpoint technique of the classic Japanese film RASHOMON, sociologist/engineer Allan Mazur reveals that there are many--often conflicting--versions of what occurred at Love Canal. His collection of gripping personal tales tells how politics, journalism, and epidemiology often clash, when confronting a potential community disaster.

The Ogre of Rashomon

Yei Theodora Ozaki,Varla Ventura
The Ogre of Rashomon Book PDF

Author : Yei Theodora Ozaki,Varla Ventura
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619400955

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The Ogre of Rashomon by Yei Theodora Ozaki,Varla Ventura Pdf

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. The warrior's sword and the village heroes are no match for the ogres and goblins that gnash their teeth and wreck havoc in early 20th century Japan.