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Akira Kurosawa - Screenwriter 9784336073969
Booksplease Price: £46.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784336073969Author National Film Archive of JapanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Kokusho Kanko... -
Akira Kurosawa by Peter Wild
Booksplease Price: £23.29'Most directors have one film for which they are known or possibly two', Francis Ford Coppola has said, 'Akira Kurosawa has eight or nine.' Through his many masterpieces such as Rashomon, Seven... -
Long Take Akira Kurosawa 9781517903282
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.30A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. "It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies," he said. "In other words,... -
Long Take Akira Kurosawa 9781517903299
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. "It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies," he said. "In other words,... -
Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394714394Author Akira KurosawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Akira Kurosawa by Manuel Vidal Estevez 9788437611310
Booksplease Price: £18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437611310Author Manuel Vidal EstevezFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher... -
Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan by David A. Conrad 9781476686745
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.78The samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are set in the past, but they tell us much about the present, as do his crime stories, romances, military films, medical dramas and... -
Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide by Eric San Juan 9781538110898
Booksplease Price: £38.10The career of acclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than thirty movies, many of them indisputable classics: Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai,... -
The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated by Donald Richie
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.49In 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... -
Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema James Goodwin (Professor, UCLA) 9780801846618
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.11In Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema, James Goodwin draws on contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to explore the Japanese director's use of a variety of texts to create films that... -
Compound Cinematics (paperback): Akira Kurosawa and I Shinobu Hashimoto 9781647293222
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647293222Author Shinobu HashimotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher... -
The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa - Revised and Expanded Edition by Stephen Prince
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £35.75The 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... -
Directory of World Cinema: Japan by John Berra 9781841503356
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £38.24From the revered classics of Akira Kurosawa to the modern marvels of Takeshi Kitano, the films that have emerged from Japan represent a national cinema that has gained worldwide admiration and... -
The Hero and the Grave: The Theme of Death in the Films of John Ford, Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone by Alireza Vahdani 9781476664101
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.85The theme of death is an essential component of film narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero. Filmmakers from different cultures and backgrounds have developed distinct yet archetypal... -
Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa by Anthony Davies 9780521399135
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Shakespeare's plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book... -
Japanese Cinema: A Personal Journey by Peter Cowie
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.97An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors.This is a passionate, personal journey through one of the world's greatest national cinemas,... -
Images: My Life in Film by Ingmar Bergman
Booksplease Price: £23.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628727012Author Ingmar BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher... -
That Complex Whole: Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior Lee Cronk 9780813337050
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37When evolutionary biology stretched out a tentacle called sociobiology and began to probe human behavior back in the 1970s, there was no room for neutrality. Advocates of the new science hailed the... -
Transcendence and Spirituality in Japanese Cinema: Framing Sacred Spaces Melissa Croteau 9780367226282
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £129.20This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at... -
Harold Pinter's Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Influence on the Work of Harold Pinter by Charles Morton 9781032182643
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book charts the impact of Shakespeare's works on Harold Pinter's career as a playwright.This exploration traces Shakespeare's influence through Pinter's pre-theatre writings (1950-1956), to his... -
Rashomon by Donald Richie 9780813511801
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.60Rashomon is one of the greatest of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's films, the winner of the 1951 Venice Festival prize and the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1952. It features Toshiru... -
Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade by Dave Kehr 9780226495682
Booksplease Price: £21.99Dave Kehr's writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr "one of the... -
Transcendence and Spirituality in Japanese Cinema: Framing Sacred Spaces Melissa Croteau 9781032361833
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at... -
Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film Martin Halliwell 9781138275829
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.37This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as... -
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD'A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely... -
Dreaming and Being Dreamt: The Psychoanalytic Function of Dreams by John A. Schneider 9781032471105
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.95In Dreaming and Being Dreamt, John Schneider illustrates the central concept of all emotional functioning: that we are most alive in our dreaming, and that it is dreaming that brings us to life... -
Nekogahara: Stray Cat Samurai 5 by Hiroyuki Takei 9781632365033
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.67In medieval Japan, a bell hanging on the collar is a sign that a cat has a master. Norachiyo's bell hangs from his katana sheath, but he is nonetheless a stray - a ronin. This one-eyed cat samurai... -
The Problems of Viewing Performance: Epistemology and Other Minds by Michael Y. Bennett 9780367725822
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by,... -
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert's literary career. ... -
Nekogahara: Stray Cat Samurai 1 by Hiroyuki Takei 9781632363657
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In medieval Japan, a bell hanging on the collar is a sign that a cat has a master. Norachiyo's bell hangs from his katana sheath, but he is nonetheless a stray - a ronin. This one-eyed cat samurai... -
Nekogahara: Stray Cat Samurai 2 by Hiroyuki Takei
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'In medieval Japan, a bell hanging on the collar is a sign that a cat has a master. Norachiyo's bell hangs from his katana sheath, but he is nonetheless a stray - a ronin. This one-eyed cat samurai... -
The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently by Olga V. Solovieva
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £75.14The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa's debt to the intellectual tradition of... -
Throne of Blood by Robert N. Watson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Throne 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... -
The Japanese Film: Art and Industry - Expanded Edition by Joseph L. Anderson 9780691007922
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.82Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film... -
Tcm Imports: 52 Favorites for a Year of World Cinema by Alicia Malone 9780762488483
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40TCM Imports is an essential, accessible guide to an absorbing selection of great cinema from around the world-curated by Turner Classic Movies host, entertainment journalist, and author Alicia... -
A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day by Alexander Jacoby
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £23.70This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen by Russell Jackson 9781108431552
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.76The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen provides a lively guide to film and television productions adapted from Shakespeare's plays. Offering an essential resource for students of... -
Shakespeare on Film by Jack J. Jorgens 9780819181572
Booksplease Price: £71.54Explores the overlapping, hotly disputed borderlands of literature, theater and film. Concerned with the creative possibilities of rendering Shakespeare on film, the book studies the rich... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen by Russell Jackson 9781108421164
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £81.07The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen provides a lively guide to film and television productions adapted from Shakespeare's plays. Offering an essential resource for students of... -
The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic by Andrew Robinson 9781848855168
Booksplease Price: £23.54"I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali'", noted Akira Kurosawa. Satyajit Ray's three films about the boyhood, adolescence and manhood of Apu, 'Pather Panchali'...