Anderer on Kurosawa’s Rashomon
Paul Anderer (Mack Professor of Humanities, Professor of Japanese Literature, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University)
Friday, December 2nd, 6 PM, Kent Hall, Room 300, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of Professor Paul Anderer’s recent book: Kurosawa’s Rashomon: A Vanished City, A Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films.
Anderer on Kurosawa’s Rashomon
Friday 2 December, 6 PM, 300 Kent Hall, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Address: 1140 Amsterdam Avenue (on W116th Street)
Followed by a reception {2 IDs to drink} RSVP requested by Nov. 22nd: RSVP@keenecenter.org
This event celebrates the publication of Paul Anderer’s recent book: Kurosawa’s Rashomon: A Vanished City, A Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films (Pegasus Books, October 2016). A filmmaker of international renown, Kurosawa and the story of his formative years remain as enigmatic as his own most famous film. Anderer investigates the driving forces that shaped and forged Kurosawa’s artistic vision: the Great Earthquake of 1923 and the dynamic energy that surged through Tokyo in its wake; the destruction of the city again in the fire-bombings of 1945, and finally, the specter and the voice of a gifted and troubled older brother—himself a star in the silent film industry—who took Kurosawa to see his first films, and who led a rebellious life until his desperate end. Anderer’s book, like this talk, addresses how a film like Rashomon came to be, and why it endures to illuminate the shadows and the challenges of our present.
Participants:
Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
David Lurie, Associate Professor of Japanese History and Literature and Director of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
Geoffrey O’Brien, Editor in Chief of the Library of America and author of The Phantom Empire
Paul Anderer, Mack Professor of Humanities and Professor of Japanese Literature
Co-sponsored by the Orient Finance Co. Endowment for the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, the University Seminar on Japanese Culture, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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