This is really helpful information, the sort that I come to message boards and discussion forums for. Thank you!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Roger Macy <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:macyroger@yahoo.co.uk">macyroger@yahoo.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><span>Dear 
KineJapaners,</span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><span>I’m always 
grateful for people who announce their own or other people’s publications on 
this forum.<span>  </span>We haven’t had much 
mentioned of english-language publications of late, whilst I see that, 
alarmingly, my reading pile seems always to grow, despite my best efforts.<span>  </span>Here’s some recent ones that have come 
my way, in the belief that not everyone will have noticed all of them yet.<span>  </span>They come without any direct knowledge 
of them, unless stated.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><span>Roger</span></p>
<p style="margin:12pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span>Classical 
Japanese Cinema Revisited</span></i></b><span>, 
RUSSELL, Catherine, 2011</span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span>Politics, 
Porn and Protest</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">: 
</span></i></b><b><i><span>Japanese 
Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s</span></i></b><span style="font-size:9pt">, 
</span><span>STANDISH, 
Isolde, 2011, I bumped into a list-member who had the Sight and Sound review 
copy of this book, so I shall wait for that review.</span></p>
<p style="margin:12pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><u><span>Also, 
some books with some specific content on Japanese film 
:-</span></u></p>
<p style="margin:12pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span>Japanese 
Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Shuji 
Terayama</span></i></b><i><span>, 
</span></i><span>RIDGELY, 
Steven C., 2010.<span>  </span>Has, for instance, 
a 35 page chapter on <i>Den&#39;en ni shisu</i>, 1974.</span></p>
<p style="margin:12pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span>Rape in 
Art 
Cinema, 
</span></i></b><span>RUSSELL, 
Dominique, 2010, This is priced at .£60<span>  
</span>Has a chapter &#39;Fault Lines of Vision: <i>Rashomon</i> and <i>The Man Who Left His Will on Film</i>, 
Eugenie BRINKEMA.<span>  </span>The essay does 
engage with previous critiques of these films.<span>  </span>I can’t remember how the editor 
justified the title but for Japanese films, at least, it’s hardly just ‘art 
films’ that are defined by rape.<span>  
</span>But that’s another story….</span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span>World 
Cinema and the Ethics of Realism</span></i></b><b><span>, </span></b><span>NAGIB, 
Lúcia, 2011, Has chapters on ‘<i>The Realm of the Senses</i>, the Ethical 
Imperative and the Politics of Pleasure’ and ‘Hara and Kobayashi’s ‘Private 
Documentaries’ ‘.</span></p>
<p style="margin:12pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span>When 
Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade</span></i></b><span>, 
KEHR, Dave, U.of Chicago P., reviewed in S&amp;S Sep11 with mention of Ozu, 
Mizoguchi and Naruse. Amazon mktplc £11</span></p>
<p style="margin:2pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><span>Under 
&#39;Revivals and Retrospectives&#39;<span>  </span>has 
reviews of :-</span></p>
<p style="margin:2pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><span>Story 
of the Last [sic] Chrysanthemum, MIZOGUCHI</span></p>
<p style="margin:2pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><span>Record 
of a Tenant Gentleman, OZU</span></p>
<p style="margin:2pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><span>When 
a Woman Ascends the Stairs, NARUSE</span></p>
<p style="margin:2pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><span>and 
under &#39;New Masters&#39; :-</span></p>
<p style="margin:2pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><span>Eijanaika, 
IMAMURA</span></p>
<p style="margin:12pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><u><span>Some 
Journal articles :-</span></u></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><b><span><span> </span>&#39;Fractured Landscapes: detection, 
location and history in Uchida Tomu&#39;s<i><span>  
</span>Kiga kaikyo</i> / <i>A Fugitive from 
the Past</i>’</span></b><span>, 
PHILLIPS, Alastair</span><span>, 
<i><span>Screen</span></i> Summer 2011 
pp215--232.</span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><b><span>‘Revisiting 
Kurosawa Akira’s <i>The Idiot</i> : A comparison with Sergei 
Eisenstein’</span></b><span>, by 
list-member Yuna De ALLOY<i> Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema</i> 2:1, 2010 
(There&#39;s also article on <i>Dersu Uzala </i>and <i>Okuribito </i>in that 
issue.)</span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0pt;layout-grid-mode:char" class="MsoNormal"><b><span>‘Movie 
advertisements and the formation of a new visual environment in interwar 
Japan’</span></b><span>, FUJIKI, Hideaki, 2011 in <i>Japan 
Forum</i> 23:1.<span>  </span>One can consider, 
inter alia, whether <span> </span>contemporary or 
more recent theories articulated around the new ‘figural aesthetics’ stood up to 
any empirical tests, and how some critics saw the ‘ubiquitous, distractive and 
ephemeral’ culture as superficial.<span>  
</span>Or you could just superficially admire the illustrations which are 
admirably reproduced. </span></p></font></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>Mark R. Harris<br></div><div>Profesor de humanidades</div><div>Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Sinaloa</div><div>Blvd. Pedro Infante 3773</div><div>Culiacan, CP 80100, Sinaloa, Mexico</div>
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