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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dear KineJapaners,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I wonder whether anyone else would like to focus on the
period before the outbreak of the Pacific War, under some umbrella such as
'Japan's exceptionally long 1939 - the transition from peace to war, reflected
in film'.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Of course, our convenor may dismiss such a
stretch-umbrella out of hand, but I would be interested in hearing from anyone
working on this period off list.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><A
href="mailto:macyroger@yahoo.co.uk">macyroger@yahoo.co.uk</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=Alex.Zahlten@gmx.de href="mailto:Alex.Zahlten@gmx.de">Alex Zahlten</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">Japanese Cinema Discussion
Forum</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 10, 2013 7:48 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [KineJapan] Call for Papers: Kinema Club XIII</DIV></DIV>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>Kinema Club XIII</B></SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>at Harvard University</B></SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>Three Times +X. Transitional Moments in Film and
Media History in Japan.</B></SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>Dates: January 17, 2014</B></SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>Reischauer Institute, Harvard
University</B></SPAN></P>
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>Deadine for submissions: August 20,
2013</B></SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">We welcome submissions for the 13th Kinema Club
Conference on Film and Moving Images from Japan!</SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">This Kinema Club will focus on three transitional
moments in the history of film and media in Japan, centered around the years
1927, 1962, and 1995. Additionally, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the
Reischauer Institute, we will include the year 1973.</SPAN></P>
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">Panel proposals on additional years are also
possible (though not individual papers), as are panels on questions of
historiography in relation to research on film and moving images from
Japan.</SPAN></P>
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">The concept is therefore somewhat different from
previous Kinema Clubs. By focusing respective sessions on specific years, we
will be able to recognize heterogeneous constellations. These can be what Harry
Harootunian has (in reference to Ernst Bloch) called “noncontemporaneous
contemporaneity“, or due to other factors of industry or audience segmentation.
These constellations can include relations across different genres, distribution
networks, or media platforms at a given historical moment. It will allow
recognizing what we might call contradictory coherences of aesthetic, social,
and political history.</SPAN></P>
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">For this we have selected three years that are often
regarded, for different reasons, as transitional:</SPAN></P>
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<LI
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">1927 is the year that Komatsu Hiroshi sees as
foundational for modernism in the cinema of Japan, strongly influenced by the
1923 earthquake in Kantô.</SPAN> </LI></UL>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">1962/3 is the time of the appearance of Pink Film
and Ninkyô Yakuza film, and the production of the first anime, Tetsuwan Atomu
/ Astro Boy (even if the first broadcast took place on January 1, 1963). It
the year after a large part of Shin Toho’s archives were sold to television,
making Japanese films produced for the cinema available on TV for the first
time.</SPAN> </LI></UL>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">1995 is often discussed as a year of crisis and
rupture, deeply leaving its mark on moving image culture. After the burst of
the bubble and the re-organization of the film industry, it is the year in
which Neon Genesis Evangelion is broadcast. It is the time when Japanese film
is re-”discovered” at international film festivals.</SPAN> </LI></UL>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">and as a bonus option and due to the 40th
anniversary, we include the year 1973, the year of the founding of the
Reischauer Institute.</SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>Panel submissions of at least three presenters
that focus on additional years are also welcome!</B></SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>Dates</B>:</SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">The conference will be held on <B>January 16 </B>at
the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University. </SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>Submissions:</B></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">Please send abstracts of up to 200 words or any
questions to:<STRONG> kinemaclub13@gmail.com</STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>Deadline for submissions is August 20,
2013</B>. </SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>What is Kinema Club? </B></SPAN></P>
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<P
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">Kinema Club is an informal community of scholars,
artists, and fans interested in Japanese moving image media established in the
early 1990s. A group that Initially formed for informally swapping Xeroxes of
tables of content from Japanese film journals eventually established a newsgroup
called KineJapan, which instantly grew to 50 names. KineJapan now has over 600
participants from every part of the world. </SPAN></P>
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<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">From this description you might gather than Kinema
Club is more an idea than a group. The idea is that Kinema Club provides a
rubric within which anything is possible. No one owns it. Anyone can take it and
do something creative with it. We have no dues (and no budget or bank account).
No system of introductions. No office. It is amorphous, even anarchic, but it
has definitely played an important role in networking all the scholars,
programmers and fans interested in Japanese cinema. </SPAN></P>
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style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">One of the most important activities has been our
workshops and conferences. At the end of the 1990s, the study of Japanese cinema
was undergoing some interesting transformations. Most notably, it was becoming
increasingly interdisciplinary. To confront these changes head-on, an intimate
workshop was held at the University of Michigan in 1999. One thing became
immediately evident: although there were many students and professors studying
Japanese film and television, no one really knew each other. KineJapan already
had over 200 members at that point, but few people had met face to face. So
subsequent workshops and conferences were held in Hawai'i (2003), NYU (2004),
McGill (2004), Tokyo (2005), NYU (2005), Yale (2006), Frankfurt (2007), Harvard
(2009), Hawai'i (2010), Vienna (2011) and Yale (2012). The programs for many of
these conferences are on the archives section of the Kinema Club
website.</SPAN></P>
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