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Throne of Blood

(book in English)

by Robert N. Watson

Type
Studies
Subject
One FilmThrone of Blood
Keywords
Akira Kurosawa
Publishing Date
2020
Publisher
BFI Publishing
Collection
BFI Film Classics
2nd edition
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Paperback • 98 pages • 16 €
5 ½ x 7 ½ 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

Throne of Blood (2014)

by Robert N. Watson

Publisher: BFI Publishing
(old edition)(in English)

Subject: One Film > Throne of Blood

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