The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director's cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyses Kurosawa'[...]
New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. "Postcolonial Vietnam" takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, and who should be included as participants and agents in the story.[...]