<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p><font face="Arial">I just wanted to mention the publication at the end of last year of a book that contains a couple of very good articles on Japanese film thinkers. I am biased, of course: they were penned by</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> two of
my graduate students at Yale, Naoki Yamamoto and Ryan Cook. But they can serve as introductions to some of the interesting thinking done on cinema in Japan (a topic I am also working on). The book itself is a stupendous compilation of works that broaden and multiply the histories of film theory around the globe.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><p style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font face="Arial">Here is the bibliographic info for the book:</font></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font face="Arial"><b>Dall'inizio, alla fine. Theorie del cinema in prospettiva / In the very beginning, at the very end. Film Theories in Perspective</b></font></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font face="Arial">Edited by Francesco Casetti, Jane Gaines and Valentine Re</font></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font face="Arial">Udine: Forum, 2010. ISBN 9788884205988</font></p></span></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The two articles are:</font></p><ul>
<li><font face="Arial">Ryan Cook, "A Feeling for Endings: Inagaki Taruho's Miroku as a Memoir of Cinephilia," pp. 561-570.</font>
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<li><font face="Arial">Naoki Yamamoto, "Experiencing the World through
Cinema: Nagae Michitaro and the Bergsonian Approach to Film in Wartime
Japan," pp. 571-576.</font>
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</ul><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">I also have a piece on Gonda Yasunosuke and Japanese film theory.</span></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">There's more info about the book on my blog:</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.aarongerow.com/news/beginning-japanese-film-the.html">http://www.aarongerow.com/news/beginning-japanese-film-the.html</a></font></p><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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