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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Cyr" size=2>Hello, nice to meet you all. I'm glad to
join the list. I'm student/journalist from Moscow, Russia (so, please,
excuse my English), and i'm in process of writing the diploma called "Theme
of Death in Japan mass-culture", based entirely on japan film & animation of
last twenty years (subjects that are most common to russian reseachers &
viewers -- there are plenty of otaky in Moscow, and japan embassy did a good
work in representing japan film industry to russians; other artefacts (i.e.
manga books, pop music, etc.)</FONT><FONT face="Arial Cyr" size=2> are very hard
to find -- and hard to analyse as well)</FONT><FONT face="Arial Cyr"
size=2>. And the language barrier is obviously exits -- I don't speak/read
Japanese and neither most of russian critics/researchers are. So: films and the
representation of death. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Cyr" size=2>I failed to find any books devoted to this
very theme, though a huge research by Maurice Pinguet "Voluntary Death in
Japan" (Pinguet was a friend and close assosiate to Bart
& Foucalt) </FONT><FONT face="Arial Cyr" size=2>proves to be rather
useful. More or less, I need somehow to describe the way japan films
represents death-related things and to explain why they represent them this
very way. Hard-to-do one, isn't it? I'm still in the beginning of the
way, and got very few ideas about the subject (which
I'll nevertheless post later), so a</FONT><FONT face="Arial Cyr"
size=2>ny comments and suggestions for my work are highly appreciated.
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Cyr" size=2>Alexey Mounipov</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>