Thanks for the announcement, Steve!<div><br></div><div>Frako Loden</div><div>Berkeley, CA<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Steve Ridgely <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sridgely@wisc.edu">sridgely@wisc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Dear kinejapan,</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Just a quick announcement that Deborah Shamoon (Notre Dame) has a new article out in the latest issue of <i>Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society</i> (vol. 35, no. 1) called "Misora Hibari and the Girl Star in Postwar Japanese Cinema." </font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">She traces out Hibari's film career in the context of postwar girl's culture and then focuses in on how the film <i>The Izu Dancer (Izu no odoriko) </i>was obsessively remade not only to iconize girl stars like Yoshinaga Sayuri and Yamaguchi Momoe, but also to reconfigure Hibari's image as she aged.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Hopefully you'll be able to find this in your local library, but if not, the University of Chicago will sell you the pdf for $10!</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Here's more information, including the article abstract:</div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/599268" target="_blank">http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/599268</a></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><font color="#888888"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font:12.0px Helvetica">Steve Ridgely</font></div>
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