Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14019
Title: Ran: Chaos on the 'Western' Frontier
Contributor(s): Griggs, Yvonne  (author)
Publication Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1386/jafp.1.2.103_1
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14019
Abstract: This article looks at the relationship between Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran', Shakespeare's 'King Lear' and genre cinema. Instead of seeking to prove 'Ran's debt to Shakespeare, debate centres on Kurosawa's inventive intertextualization, part of which involves his manipulation of the generic codes of Eastern and Western cinema. The article argues that - although widely regarded as part of the 'canon' of Shakespeare on screen and appropriated by a Shakespearean heritage of global proportions - Kurosawa's 'Ran' refuses to be consumed by Western academia. The film offers a social critique of patriarchal systems across a range of genres, from Japanese jidai-geki epic to Renaissance tragedy, to Hollywood western, linking the concerns embedded in Shakespeare's 'King Lear' with those of other historical eras, other nations, other mythologies.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, 1(2), p. 103-116
Publisher: Intellect Journals
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1753-643X
1753-6421
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200104 Media Studies
200101 Communication Studies
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950204 The Media
950205 Visual Communication
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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