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A. S. Barnes and Company / The Tantivy Press, Published 1977. Hardcover, 242 pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with black-and-white film stills. Bibliography and filmographies by Alain Silver and James Ursini.
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In Good condition, no dust jacket. Black textured paper-covered boards lettered in silver on spine; mild shelf and edge wear, some scuffing and soiling to covers, and a circular residue mark at lower front cover near spine. Binding tight. Front and rear jacket flaps (with jacket design credit to Stefan Dreja) clipped and taped to front pastedown. Previous owner's name and address stamped on front free endpaper; some spotting and toning to endpapers. Mild toning to edges of text block and page edges; five small red ink X's beside entries in the filmography on p. 215 and one on p. 213; a few small light soils to pages throughout. Study of the Japanese samurai film, from the historical samurai and the code of bushido through the films of Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, and Hideo Gosha, with chapters on genre types, the Zato Ichi and Kyoshiro Nemuri series, and Miyamoto Musashi on film. Illustrated throughout with stills, and followed by a glossary of Japanese terms, bibliography, and director and series filmographies. Silver, a graduate of the UCLA film school, went on to co-edit Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (1979) with Elizabeth Ward; this book was revised in 1983 and expanded again in 2005. Contents: Acknowledgements; General Introduction; The Samurai in Fiction; Akira Kurosawa; Genre Types; The Alien Hero; Hideo Gosha; The Slayers; Glossary of Japanese Terms; Bibliography; Filmographies; Index.