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Five Kurosawas and a (de)construction of the Orient
2020
In 1959, UNESCO published a catalogue of Eastern films suitable for Western audiences, titled ‘Orient. A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab and Asian Culture’. The aim of the catalogue was to familiarise Western audiences with Eastern cultures through cinema. The catalogue lists seven general characteristics of Eastern cinema to distinguish it from its Western counterpart and to provide ready-made interpretations of the essential characteristics of the Eastern world. Of the 139 feature films listed in the catalogue, five were directed by Kurosawa Akira – the biggest number of films by a single director. This article provides an analysis of the five Kurosawa films within the frame…
La risa es un asunto serio: lo carnavalesco en "El idiota" (Dostoievski y Kurosawa)
2016
El texto propone un estudio comparativo entre la novela "El idiota" de F. M. Dostoievski y su adaptación cinematográfica por Akira Kurosawa en 1951. Más concretamente, se analiza la presencia en la cinta del director nipón de «lo carnavalesco», rasgo característico de la novelística del escritor ruso que Mijail Bajtín definió en su obra "Problemas de la poética de Dostoievski".