Fantasies of Valor: Legends of the Samurai in Japan and the United States
I want to talk today broadly about Hollywood, its images of samurai and the Japanese, and how those images contrast with Japanese images of the samurai. But more narrowly, I want to talk about one particular film: the 2003 Warner Brothers film 'The Last Samurai, 'starring Tom Cruise. The r...
Main Author: | Mark Ravina |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2010-10-01
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Series: | The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts |
Online Access: | http://www.asianetworkexchange.org/articles/200 |
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