<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Aaron's mention of the new Yoshida anthology reminded me that there are four new books worth mentioning by fellow travelers on KineJapan. I don't believe anyone has mentioned these, yet.<div><br></div><div>Fukujiki Hideaki published <i>Zoshoku Suru Perusona</i> through Nagoya UP. It's a thick, wonderfully researched study on early stardom in Japanese cinema. It sits nicely next to Daisuke Miyao's book from last year on Hayakawa. (You can read this in English by ordering his dissertation from 2005.)</div><div><a href="http://www.bk1.jp/product/02932473">http://www.bk1.jp/product/02932473</a></div><div><br></div><div>Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto published <i>Ime-ji no Teikoku/Eiga no Owari </i>through Ibunsha in Japan. He discusses the state of contemporary American cinema, with close analyses of <i>Matrix, Saving Private Ryan, </i>the recent Eastwood films, and others. </div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.ibunsha.co.jp/">http://www.ibunsha.co.jp/</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div></div><div>Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer's <i>Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts</i> finally came out. It has 24 close textual analyses of Japanese films from all eras, and most of the writers are on this list. It looks like a fantastic book. </div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://routledgemedia.com/books/Japanese-Cinema-isbn9780415328487">http://routledgemedia.com/books/Japanese-Cinema-isbn9780415328487</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div>And, finally, my <i>Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema</i> is out from Minnesota UP. Like Mitsuhiro's book, it's not really a book about Japanese cinema. Rather, it's my attempt to write about Japanese cinema in a global space, placing Kurosawa next to everything from multilingual Transylvanian silent films to Czech dubbings of mainstream Hollywod flicks. Examples from the entire history of Japanese cinema are sprinkled throughout. </div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/nornes_cinema.html">http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/nornes_cinema.html</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Markus</div></div></body></html>