| Popis: |
The Introduction details the methodology and intellectual framework of the book, allowing for a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa’s understanding of “Russia” as differentiated from the “West” on the one side, and from the Soviet Union on the other, emerged from the Japanese reception of Russian democratic literature. Kurosawa stands in the intellectual tradition of the Russian-inflected anarchist dissent of prewar Japan and updates this tradition as a program for postwar reconstruction. Taking into account the Russian (and Russian–Japanese) democratic roots of Kurosawa’s ideological persuasion, the Introduction discusses how the book sidesteps the unproductive debate as to whether Kurosawa is “the most Japanese” or “the most western” of directors. |
