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size=3>Hello,</FONT></P>
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size=3>I’m just sharing my thoughts and questions with you, the
experts:</FONT></P>
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size=3>Is there a preoccupation in a certain branch of contemporary japanese
(fiction*) films (from the mid-90s on) with memory and the body through the
articulation of filmic space? </FONT></P>
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size=3>I’m thinking of the dilapidated dystopias and the isolated individuals in
enclosed spaces in the films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi; the merging of machine and
flesh in the urban nightmares of Tsukamoto Shinya; the prosthetic memories and
bodies in the simulated places of Oshii Mamoru and the location and dislocation
of (traumatic) memory in the films of Aoyama Shinji and Koreeda Hirokazu.
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size=3>If there are these shared themes and styles, what do they relate to? Is
it a question of genre? Is it relevant that some of these films are economically
aimed for foreign festivals? Or could you perceive these features as an effect
of a „spatial“ challenge of identity (i.e. cultural globalization and
mediatization), something the japanese have encountered numerous times in their
history?</FONT></P>
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size=3>And last but not least: Is it advisible or even possible to view these
films under such a meta-perspective?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>*Of course you could also make a point in including Ying Li’s
Yasukuni.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Robert Geib</FONT></P>
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size=3>Department of media studies</FONT></P>
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size=3>Jena, Germany</FONT></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>