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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781839024801 |
| Qualifying information |
(online) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781839024788 |
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(ePub) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN |
9781839024771 |
| Qualifying information |
(softback) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
791.4372 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mellen, Joan, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
19114 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Seven samurai / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Joan Mellen. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
Second edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London [England] : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
British Film Institute, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2022 |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[London, England] : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Bloomsbury Publishing, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 online resource (88 pages) : |
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illustrations. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"In Seven Samurai (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa's celebrated film, regarded by many to be the major achievement of Japanese cinema, is an epic that evokes the cultural upheaval brought on by the collapse of Japanese militarism in the 16th century, but at the same time echoes also the sweeping cultural changes occurring in the aftermath of the American Occupation that followed Japan's defeat in the Second World War. The plot is deceptively simple. A village of farmers is beleaguered by a horde of bandits. In desperation, the farmers decide to hire itinerant samurai to protect their crops and people and defeat the bandits. There had never been a Japanese film in which peasants hired samurai, or an evocation of the social transformation that made such an idea credible. There are six samurai and one who is accepted as such. Together they reflect the ideals and values of a noble class near the point of extinction. Seven Samurai may be the greatest action film, a technical masterpiece unmatched in its depiction of movement and violence, but running beneath the sound and fury is a lament for a lost nobility, 'a dirge for the spirit of Japan,' writes Joan Mellen, 'which will never again be so strong.' Mellen's study contextualises Seven Samurai , marking its place in Japanese cinema and in Kurosawa's film-making career. She explores the film's roots in medieval history and, above all, the astonishing visual language in which Kurosawa created his elegiac epic."-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kurosawa, Akira, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1910-1998. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
19115 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Motion pictures, Japanese |
| General subdivision |
Criticism and interpretation. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
19116 |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Abstract with links to full text |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5040/9781839024801?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections">https://doi.org/10.5040/9781839024801?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections</a> |
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text/html |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
e-Book |
