<div dir="ltr"><div>Rikka Press has just released a DVD of most of the extant films of the Proletarian Film League of Japan. Makino Mamoru led the effort, with great help from Amamiya Komei or Ritsumeikan University. The three of us wrote kaisetsu for the disc. And Irhe Sohn and I translated the subtitles. </div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://rikkapress.wordpress.com/dvd%E3%80%80prolet%E2%88%92kino/">http://rikkapress.wordpress.com/dvd%E3%80%80prolet%E2%88%92kino/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is on the heels of Rikka's release of Nose Katsuo and Nakai Masakazu's short films from the 1930s. I did the translation for Nose's most famous film, so at least one of the titles has subs. </div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://rikkapress.wordpress.com/doyoubi/">http://rikkapress.wordpress.com/doyoubi/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you want to see more (totally teachable) rarities like this on video, make sure you're library is buying these discs! You, too!</div>
<div><br></div><div>+++++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, if you want to learn more about either Nose or Prokino, I discuss them extensively in Japanese Documentary Film. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/japanese-documentary-film">http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/japanese-documentary-film</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>And don't forget the free, online reprints series that I did with Makino Mamoru, which has 6 books, 32 journal issues, and an extremely rare collection of newsletters and billets from the censors (you can glimpse exactly what concerned them about the left wing film movements). </div>
<div><br></div><a href="https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/electronic/facultyseries/list/series/prewar.php">https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/electronic/facultyseries/list/series/prewar.php</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>
<div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the Rikka Prokino info: </div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="" style="border:0px;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;font-size:22px;font-weight:300;margin:0px 0px 22px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:22px;color:rgb(11,14,24);word-wrap:break-word">
DVD プロキノ作品集</h1><div class="" style="border:0px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 30px 0px 84px;vertical-align:baseline;width:474px;color:rgb(74,74,73);line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(73,168,194)">
<h3 style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:17px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 22px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:22px">◉監修──牧野守</h3><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 22px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
(日本映画史研究者)</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 22px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">◉解説──阿部マーク・ノーネス(ミシガン大学教授)<br>雨宮幸明(立命館大学大学院研究生)<br>◉推薦──岩本憲児(早稲田大学名誉教授)<br>
◉定価──15,000円+税<br>ISBN978-4-905421-40-5</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 22px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">◉刊行予定──2013年9月</p></div></div><div>
<p style="border:0px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 22px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,73);line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(73,168,194)">日本ドキュメンタリー映画の源流!<br>
日本プロレタリア映画同盟制作の映像が、デジタル映像で蘇る。<br>暗殺された山本宣治の葬儀をはじめ、<br>女性を含む労働者、学生、農民たちの姿を映し出す、<br>一九三〇年代日本の社会状況を切り取る貴重映像!</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 22px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,73);line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(73,168,194)">
一九二九年二月、プロレタリア文化運動の興隆の中、発足した映画制作団体・<br>プロキノ(日本プロレタリア映画同盟)は、わずか五年の活動期間に当時の社<br>会問題、労働問題を中心に五〇本を超えるドキュメンタリー映画やアニメー<br>ション映画を制作・上映した。その作品は労働者から熱烈な支持を受けたが、<br>戦前治安維持法体制下、弾圧を受け、一九三四年に組織は解体する。<br>このたび、戦後に結成された「プロキノを記録する会」が収集した映像をもと<br>
に、現存するドキュメンタリー映画六作品をデジタル映像化し刊行する。<br>一九二〇年代末から一九三〇年代前半にかけて、労働運動を主軸とし、学生運<br>動や農民運動をも対象としたドキュメンタリー映画制作の貴重な記録とし<br>て、近代史研究に必備の映像資料として提供する。</p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace"><b>Markus Nornes</b></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#6aa84f">Chair, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures</font></div>
<div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#6aa84f">Professor of Asian Cinema, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#6aa84f">Professor, School of Art & Design</font></div>
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