Throne of Blood

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de Robert N. Watson

Type: Studies
Sujet: One Film > Throne of Blood
Mots Clés: Akira Kurosawa
Année d'édition: 2020
Editeur: BFI Publishing
Collection: BFI Film Classics
2nd edition
Langue: anglais

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Paperback • 98 pages
5 ½ x 7 ½ inches (14 x 19 cm)

ISBN

978-1-83902-187-9

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made. In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson explores how Kurosawa draws key philosophical and psychological arguments from Shakespeare, translates them into striking visual metaphors, and inflects them through the history of post-World War II Japan. Watson places particular emphasis on the contexts that underlie the film's central tension between individual aspiration and the stability of broader social and ecological collectives - and therefore between free will and determinism. In his foreword to this new edition, Robert Watson considers the central characters' Washizu and his wife Asaji's blunder in viewing life as a ruthless competition in which only the most brutal can thrive in the context of an era of neoliberal economics, resurgent strongman political leaders, and myopic views of the environmenal crisis, with nothing valued that cannot be monetized.

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