BackThrone of Blood
(book in English)
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- One Film > Throne of Blood
- Akira Kurosawa
- Publishing Date
- 2020
- Publisher
- BFI Publishing
- Collection
- BFI Film Classics
2nd edition - Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 98 pages • 16 €
5.5 x 7.5 inches (14 x 19 cm) - ISBN
- 978-1-8390-2187-9
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Book Presentation:
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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Previous edition
Throne of Blood (2014)
Publisher: BFI Publishing
(old edition)(in English)
Subject: One Film > Throne of Blood
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