Style of 'the Pictorial Shakespeare'—— Auteur Theory Applying to Akira Kurosawa''''s Work

摘要

cqvip:By investigating the cinematography and thematic concerns of Akira Kurosawa's work under the auteurist criteria, it can be argued that Kurosawa is an auteur whose work possesses three distinctive authorial signatures: the active involvement of nature, the strong sense of stage-performance, the editing on movement;and the consistent visual style has corresponding meaning concerning his personal experience and socio-historical circumstances.