Robert N. Watson

Throne of Blood

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-83902-189-3
EAN: 9781839021893
Produktnummer: 34665466
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 104 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 9'286 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 60 bw illus

Über den Autor

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.