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Joan Mellen is the bestselling author of twenty books, including The Great Game in Cuba, published by Skyhorse in 2013. She has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Baltimore Sun. Mellen is a professor of English and toon meer creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. toon minder
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Werken van Joan Mellen
A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History (2005) 67 exemplaren
Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett (1996) 43 exemplaren
Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas (2016) 15 exemplaren
Our Man in Haiti: George de Mohrenschildt and the CIA in the Nightmare Republic (2012) 12 exemplaren
The Great Game in Cuba: How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro (2013) 12 exemplaren
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The slim volume at 110 pages matches the pocket size of other volumes in the long running BFI Film Classics series and officially lists the following sections and their page numbers under Contents: Seven Samurai 7, Afterword to the 2022 edition 95, Credits 109, Bibliography 110. Additionally, there are some bolded subsections within the text as follows: Seven Samurai and Japanese History: The Individual and The Group 17, Kurosawa's Themes 24, Kurosawa Master Craftsman 37, Kurosawa and Japanese Film; Kurosawa and his Critics 71, The epic moment: Kurosawa's controversial ending 89, The images of women in the films of Akira Kurosawa 100.
Professor Mellen provides excellent analysis on Kurosawa's composition of characters illustrated with images from the film examining class, interpersonal relationships, group dynamics, and even foreshadowing the fate of characters and the samurai as a class. Professor Mellen examines the influence of Sergei Eisenstein and his montage editing style on Kurosawa with illustrative examples from the film. Unfortunately, as much as I enjoyed the majority of the text I found the book disappointing in its digressions in revisiting the feuds and attacks from the 70s at the height of film culture as well as Kurosawa's treatment of women in his films; subjects which are certainly deserving of their own essays or BFI editions, just not tacked on here. I can most assuredly agree with Professor Mellen's words on Seven Samurai that the greatness of this film is 'sublime'.
Next year in 2024 Toho Studios will mark the 70th anniversary of two its landmark and defining films "Seven Samurai" and "Gojira" known globally today as "Godzilla" and studio gates have massive murals of each film guarding the entry like the statues of deities at the gates of temples.… (meer)