Throne of Blood by Watson, Robert N.

Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of...
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Author: Robert N. Watson
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Language: English
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Throne of Blood by Watson, Robert N.

Throne of Blood

€26,56

Throne of Blood

€26,56
Author: Robert N. Watson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Robert N. Watson
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: 10/29/2020
Pages: 98
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.20w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781839021879

About the Author
Robert N. Watson is Distinguished Professor of English and Associate Dean of Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of many award-winning books, including Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance (2006) and Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition (2004), and editor of several volumes of Ben Jonson's plays.

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