Takashi Shimura

Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476670133

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Takashi Shimura by Scott Allen Nollen Pdf

Considered one of the finest performers in world cinema, Japanese actor Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) appeared in more than 300 stage, film and television roles during his five-decade career. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, including major roles in the landmark classics Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954), and for his memorable characterizations in Ishiro Honda's Godzilla (1954) and several Kaiju sequels. This is the first complete English-language account of Shimura's work. In addition to historical and critical coverage of Shimura's life and career, it includes an extensive filmography.

Author : Donald Richie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie Pdf

Author : Donald Richie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520341784

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The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated by Donald Richie Pdf

In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching. Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished career he managed, like very few others in the teeth of a huge and relentless industry, to elevate each of his films to a distinctive level of art. His Rashomon—one of the best-remembered and most talked-of films in any language—was a revelation when it appeared in 1950 and did much to bring Japanese cinema to the world's attention. Kurosawa's films display an extraordinary breadth and an astonishing strength, from the philosophic and sexual complexity of Rashomon to the moral dedication of Ikiru, from the naked violence of Seven Samurai to the savage comedy of Yojimbo, from the terror-filled feudalism of Throne of Blood to the piercing wit of Sanjuro.

Author : United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000066182757

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by United States. Patent and Trademark Office Pdf

Author : Xin Chen
Publisher : Apress
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430206774

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Developing Application Frameworks in .NET by Xin Chen Pdf

* Provides ready-to-run code for some of the most common tasks that .NET applications need to perform, which readers can incorporate directly into their own applications * Shows how to develop an extensible application framework that will greatly simplify development using the Microsoft .NET Framework * Provides examples of advanced object-oriented techniques such as design patterns in the context of real applications * The complete source code for SAF, which is ready for use and can be modified freely, is available for download * Deepens knowledge of .NET by showing many different .NET technologies (e.g. Remoting) in action, in a real application – not just illustrative samples

Author : Cameron Smart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266934

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Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar by Cameron Smart Pdf

Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards represents a significant landmark. Not only is it the first in-depth corpus-based study to be based on Linear Unit Grammar, it is also the first study to present a unified model of both Linear Unit Grammar and Linear Unit Discourse Analysis. To illustrate this model, the book focuses on the role of discourse reflexivity in the linear structure of online message board discourse from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) webpage. It is shown that discourse reflexivity plays a central role in the linear structure and antagonism characteristic of this type of discourse. This book will particularly appeal to those who have an interest in carrying forward the innovations in the description of grammar, lexis and discourse proposed by John Sinclair in his lifetime as well as to those with a specific interest in discourse reflexivity and computer-mediated communication.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Patents
ISBN : MINN:31951D00994097L

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Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steve Ryfle
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Godzilla (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9781550223484

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Japan's Favorite Mon-star by Steve Ryfle Pdf

Bigger, badder, and more durable than Hollywood's greatest action heroes, Godzilla emerged from the mushroom cloud of an H-bomb test in 1954 to trample Tokyo. More than 40 years later, he reigns as the undisputed monarch of movie monsters, with legions of fans spanning several generations and countless international boundaries.

Author : Stephen Prince
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691214184

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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.

Author : Teruyo Nogami
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1933330090

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Waiting on the Weather by Teruyo Nogami Pdf

A revealing memoir about the director and his films, by his first assistant for fifty years.

Author : M. Therson-Cofie
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1957-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Daily Graphic by M. Therson-Cofie Pdf

Author : Catherine Russell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441144614

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Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited by Catherine Russell Pdf

Catherine Russell's highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated all film production in Japan, from roughly 1930 to 1960. Respectful and thoroughly informed about the aesthetics and critical values of the Japanese canon, Russell is also critical of some of its ideological tendencies, and her analyses provide new insights on class and gender dynamics. Russell locates Japanese cinema within a global system of reception, and she highlights the importance of the industrial production context of these films. Including 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. With a critical approach that highlights the "everydayness" of Japanese studio-era cinema, Catherine Russell demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema, treating it with fewer auteurist and Orientalist assumptions than many other scholars and critics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000031931687

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. P. Telotte
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477327357

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Selling Science Fiction Cinema by J. P. Telotte Pdf

How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself. For Hollywood, the golden age of science fiction was also an age of anxiety. Amid rising competition, fluid audience habits, and increasing government regulation, studios of the 1950s struggled to make and sell the kinds of films that once were surefire winners. These conditions, the leading media scholar J. P. Telotte argues, catalyzed the incredible rise of science fiction. Though science fiction films had existed since the earliest days of cinema, the SF genre as a whole continued to resist easy definition through the 1950s. In grappling with this developing genre, the industry began to consider new marketing approaches that viewed films as fluid texts and audiences as ever-changing. Drawing on trade reports, film reviews, pressbooks, trailers, and other archival materials, Selling Science Fiction Cinema reconstructs studio efforts to market a promising new genre and, in the process, shows how salesmanship influenced what that genre would become. Telotte uses such films as The Thing from Another World, Forbidden Planet, and The Blob, as well as the influx of Japanese monster movies, to explore the shifting ways in which the industry reframed the SF genre to market to no-longer static audience expectations. Science fiction transformed the way Hollywood does business, just as Hollywood transformed the meaning of science fiction.

Author : Stuart Galbraith, IV
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461673743

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The Toho Studios Story by Stuart Galbraith, IV Pdf

Since its inception in 1933, Toho Co., Ltd., Japan's most famous movie production company and distributor, has produced and/or distributed some of the most notable films ever to come out of Asia, including Seven Samurai, Godzilla, Ringu, and Spirited Away. The Toho Studios Story provides a complete picture of every Toho feature the Japanese studio produced and released.