Akira Kurosawa : master of cinema / Peter Cowie ; foreword by Martin Scorsese ; introduction by Donald Richie ; with a note by Kazuko Kurosawa.

"Akira Kurosawa is arguably the greatest of all Japanese film directors and is respected around the world as one of the masters of the art form. In celebration of the centennial of his birth, this volume pays tribute to Kurosawa's visual style - with more than two hundred images, many never before p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cowie, Peter
Other Authors: Scorsese, Martin
Language:English
Published: New York : Rizzoli, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Kurosawa, Akira, > 1910-1998 > Criticism and interpretation.
Motion picture producers and directors > Japan > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The man and his formative years
  • Images of the modern world
  • The historical imperative
  • The literary connection
  • Formalism and the elements
  • Riding into history.