- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: British Film Institute; 1st edition edition (Jan 22 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1844571653
- ISBN-13: 978-1844571659
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
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Explores the issues of auteurship and stardom in the films of Kitano Takeshi especially as they relate to problems of personal and national identity in a Japan confronting an age of globalization. This book relates the director to issues of contemporary cinema, Japanese national identity, and globalism.
About the Author
Aaron Gerow is Assistant Professor of Japanese Cinema, Yale University
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weak, unconvincing interpretations, Jun 9 2008
By jack twain - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Kitano Takeshi (Paperback)
This book quite unfortunately provides a very week, unconvincing interpretations of Kitano's films. The book does not deserve reading seriously.
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