The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema. Seven Samurai and Yojimbo remain enormously popular both in Japan and abr...(展开全部)

唐纳德·里奇（Donald Richie），1924年出生于美国，日本电影、文化专家。 1947年，唐纳德·里奇随军来到日本东京。很快，他就对日本文化、特别是日本电影产生了浓厚的兴趣，并开始尝试写作影评。1948年，他相识了被誉为“日本电影教母”的川喜多夫人，两人在向西方世界介绍和推广日本电影的过程中，结下了长期而深厚的友情。也正是通过她的介绍，里奇结识了当时名满日本影坛的电影大师小津安二郎。 自1953年起，唐纳德·里奇定期为《日本时报》撰写影评。1959年，他出版了《日本电影：艺术与工业》，这也是第一部用英语介绍日本电影的专著。之后，里奇发表了大量介绍、论述日本电影及社会的专著与文章，开始了其长达半个多世纪的日本文化“情缘”。

In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching. Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished car...(展开全部)

Laura Rascaroli is Senior Lecturer and co-director of Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, Ireland. With Ewa Mazierska, she authored From Moscow to Madrid: European Cities, Postmodern Cinema (2003), The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries (2004), and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (2006). She also edited the volumes The C...(展开全部)

An essential analysis of cinema from one of the great figures of French philosophy The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing its images and it...(展开全部)

This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet of Things and the Parliament of Things, The Cinema of Things examines cinematic...(展开全部)

"The Cinema of Eisenstein" is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of the film. The director of such classics as Potemkin, Ivan the Terrile, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented Soviet realism to the world, and mastered the concept of the film epic. Comp...(展开全部)

An essential analysis of cinema from one of the great figures of French philosophy The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing its images and it...(展开全部)