Book of Donmon Teith

Film scholars and enthusiasts will welcome this new edition of Donald Richie's incomparable study, last updated in 1984. The Method section, filmography, and bi

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 des

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 th

Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art. But film has done more than this. According to A

This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjec