A Fistful of Yojimbo: appropriation and dialogue in Japanese cinema

2017

A paper which discusses Kurosawa Akira's use of traditional Japanese archetypes, Hollywood codes of representation, and his own original style elements in one sequence of Yojimbo.

2011

Film Quarterly, 2022

Considers how the word was conceived as a means of controlling the unruly cinematic image through such forms as novelization, film criticism, and screenwriting.

Arts

Since the Western “discovery” of Japanese cinema in the 1950s, there has been a tendency among both Film Studies and Japanese Studies scholars to draw on essentialist visions of Japanese Cinema, understating its uniqueness as a consequence of its isolation from the rest of the world [...]

New Ideas in East Asian Studies: Special Edition: Critique of/in Japanese, 2017

positions: asia critique, 2019