BackSansho Dayu
(Sansho the Bailiff) (book in English)
by Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- One Film > Sansho the Bailiff
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Publishing Date
- 2020
- Publisher
- BFI Publishing
- Collection
- BFI Film Classics
2nd edition - Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 96 pages • 16 €
5 ¾ x 8 inches (14.5 x 20.5 cm) - ISBN
- 978-1-8387-1932-6
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Book Presentation:
Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece Sansho Dayu (1954) retells a classic Japanese folktale about an eleventh-century feudal official forced into exile by his political enemies. In his absence, his children fall under the corrupting influence of the malevolent bailiff Sansho. In their study of the film, film scholar Dudley Andrew and Japanese literature professor Carole Cavanaugh highlight the cultural, aesthetic and social contexts of this film which is at once rooted in folk legend and a modern artwork released in the aftermath of World War II. This edition includes a new foreword by the authors in which they consider the film's contemporary parallels in modern slavery and children torn from their families by malevolent authorities.
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Previous edition
Sansho Dayu / Sansho the Baliff (2000)
by Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh
Publisher: BFI Publishing
(old edition)(in English)
Subject: One Film > Sansho the Bailiff
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