ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Akira Kurosawa, Canadian Shield, American Frontier
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Ant110 lecture 10 november 22, 2011. Akira kurosawa 1910-1998 in his 70s some directors he had influenced, went to him he influenced directors greatly he had always struggled with resources (never had lot of money to produce films) Lukas, and scorsese offered him the opportunity to make a film about whatever he wanted with all their resources and money. Kurosawa made a movie about dreams (vignettes = short films: naturalization. A concept that attempts to address the practice in relationship to nature that connects our own identities to a chunk of nature. To make a powerful claim to a chunk of nature. Soil, land, water a space and a place. Marker of social identity, corporate belonging and legitimacy. The creek and the tunnels down the dead-end road. We have emotional/spiritual connections to these spaces and places. Associate that with a particular group of friends or solitary/meditative. Illicit things happen in those places too (porn and drugs)
