The cross-cultural camera of Akira Kurosawa

This minor dissertation is undertaken to examine the cross-cultural similarities that are revealed by motion pictures through analyzing the work of Akira Kurosawa and contrasting it with selective mainstream cinema texts. Kurosawa is a critical case in point due to his welding of Occidental and Japanese ideas into his films, and his origin from a hybridized Japan, a society which historically has freely absorbed and embellished itself from numerous cultures, including America, Korea, China and Europe.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Centre for Film and Media Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Molapo, Mpaki

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Marx, Lesley

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11010

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11010