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I posted a message a few months back about a book I am editing, <I>Cine tectonica</I>: <I>Film on the Faultline</I>. I would like to invite contributions from the community of scholars and critics who are currently writing on Japanese cinema. I am aware of a number of films, documentaries as well as feature films, that have been made since the earthquake and tsunami which struck last year on March 11, but have no direct knowledge of them (<I>A Sense of Home</I> (Kawase et al), <I>Himizu</I> (Sono Sion). The deadline for abstracts (250 words) is March 7th but please don’t hesitate to write if you wish to submit an essay. Jasper recommended a number of areas of possible interest and inquiry: <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>1) The 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake which had a major structural impact on the early Japanese film industry, forcing the major companies then in operation to move West temporarily and base themselves in Kyoto. <BR>
2) Pre-tsunami disaster films like <I>Japan Sinks</I> (1973, remade in 2006), or the post-Kobe earthquake J-horror movie <I>Isola: The Multiple Personality Girl </I>(2000) <BR>
3) The sudden rush to produce documentaries about the Tohoku 3/11 Earthquake. There's been loads made already in Japan, each claiming to be the first domestically produced documentary on the subject. There was a focus on these at this year’s Yamagata International Documentary Festival (apt, as Yamagata housed so many of the refugees from the nearby affected Tohoku area).<BR>
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There may also be other ways to respond to the traumatic subject of the earthquake in Japanese culture and cinema ... I’d be very interested in presenting a collective discussion from the kinejapan list perhaps as part of the book. This very forum might supply a meaningful venue for commemorating the ongoing impact of the disaster which befell so many on March 11, 2011.<BR>
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Alan Wright<BR>
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