I am new to the KineJapan listserv. My name is Cathy Munroe Hotes. I recently moved to Giessen, Germany from Tokyo (where I taught a graduate course on the relationship between Japanese and Western Cinema at Kanagawa Uni) and am currently an independent scholar. My research interests are the relationship between cinema and poetry. I did my undergraduate and master's degrees in Canada followed by a PhD at Exeter (UK) on the influence of cinema on the poetry of American poet Adrienne Rich. I am currently working on a project about contemporary Japanese art/experimental animation (animation as art or as poetic film). I am particularly interested in the work of Tomoyasu Murata, Koji Yamamura, Tabaimo, Mike Seike, and Kei Oyama. In my spare time I keep a blog on Japanese film at <a href="http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/">http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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