Slapstick comedy and its cast of film stars' Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops, Fatty Arbuckle, and Buster Keaton among them' has long been viewed as central to the early formal development of narrative cinema generally, and of American cinema in particular. This new volume in …
The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interes…
