A type of popular Japanese drama, evolved from the older Noh theater, in which elaborately costumed performers, nowadays men only, use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies. [Japanese,art of singing and dancing:ka,singing(from Middle Chineseka; also the...
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The Master: The Art of Akira Kurosawa India Japanese film before Akira Kurosawa is one of the great but generally neglected treasures of world cinema. Though the country's directors followed theatrical conventions up through the early 1920s (including the use of the benshi, or narrator,...
The art of repetition. Kurosawa will often repeat discrete narrative elements in his films in order to highlight the dynamic nature of specific events or the cyclical nature of life. InSeven Samurai, a village is repeatedly attacked by bandits and valiantly defended by noble warriors;Rashomonnarra...
After reluctantly packing up his attractive daughter, Mollie (Sandra Dee), and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson (James Stewart) gives new meaning to the term "concerned parent." Reading Mollie's letters describing her counter-culture experiences and beatnik frien...
"The Art of Relevance. Simon, N. (2016)." Visitor Studies, 20(2), pp. 238–239Additional informationAuthor informationEffrosyni NomikouEffrosyni Nomikou is a museum, audience, and learning researcher based at the UCL Institute of Education, London. Most recently, as part of the Science Capital...
The art of classical comic story telling (RAKUGO) was so far transmitted through person to person instruction from a professional to another (usually a disciple). It was not common to transmit the art of RAKUGO from a professional to an amateur, for the transmission of RAKUGO has been only ...
Hārītī is the first female deity in Buddhism that was credited with responsibility for protecting women during childbirth and protecting children. Since her introduction to China from India, her image has undergone multiple changes, and the rise and f
or both. Its blue-collar truck-driver hero Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki) rides into town like some bygone cowboy, taking local widow Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) under his wing as she tries to master the art of cooking noodles. He and his swiftly assembled cabal of hangers-on gamely mansplain the ...
art was no longer deemed necessary. Sawato also performs a new benshi reading for ‘The Eternal Mystery’. To make such a unique performance so widely available is something to be commended, as it breathes life into an artistic practice that remains an essential part of Japanese cinema history...