John Hopkins University Press, 1993, softcover, 280 pages, 14 x 21.6cm
In 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 are uniquely intertextual and intercultural. Surveying all of Kurosawa's films and examining six films in depth - The Idiot, The Lower Depths, Rashomon, Ikiru, Throne of Blood, and Ran - Goodwin finds in Kurosawa's themes and techniques the capacity to restructure perceptions of Western and Japanese cultures and to establish new meanings in each.
