<div dir="ltr">Daisuke Miyao's Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema is out, and it's an thick, impressive book. For me it gives a powerful sense for how rich Japanese film studies has become. Nearly twenty years ago, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto and I sketched out a similar kind of handbook. We gave up because our ambitions looked like this book, but it was difficult to imagine who could write all the essays. Things have changed. <div>
<br></div><div>Unfortunately, the price tag of this book is astronomical—$150. Oxford basically has a strategy that gives up on individual readers and relies wholly on a predictable number of research library purchases. This is incredibly disheartening, you spend all that effort on a piece of writing that no one can actually hope to place on their bookshelf. I don't know. I may just stop participating on book projects with such outrageous pricing. </div>
<div><br></div><div>(So anyone who wants to read my piece—a critique of the international film festival circuit's Eurocentrism through a case study of the Yamagata festival—is welcome to contact me _off_list_. I'll gladly send you a pdf.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the book, Daisuke!</div><div><br></div><div>Markus<br><div><br></div><div>PS: The table of contents:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Introduction</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Part 1: What Is Japanese Cinema Studies?: Japanese Cinema and Cinema Studies</b><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 1: Japanese Film Without Japan: Toward an Undisciplined Film Studies (Eric Cazdyn)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 2: Triangulating Japanese Film Style (Ben Singer)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 3: Critical Reception: Historical Conceptions of Japanese Film Criticism (Aaron Gerow)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 4: Creating the Audience: Cinema as Popular Recreation and Social Education in Modern Japan (Hideaki Fujiki)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Part 2: What Is Japanese Cinema?: Japanese Cinema and the Transnational Network</b><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 5 Adaptation As "Transcultural Mimesis" (Michael Raine)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 6 The Edge of Montage: A Case of Modernism/Modanizumu in Japanese Cinema (Chika Kinoshita)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 7 Nationalizing Madame Butterfly: The Formation of Female Stars in Japanese Cinema (Daisuke Miyao)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 8 Performing Colonial Identity: Byeonsa, Colonial Film Spectatorship, and the Formation of National Cinema in Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule (Dong Hoon Kim)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 9 Outpost of Hybridity: Paramount's Campaign in Japan, 1952-1962 (Hiroshi Kitamura)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 10 Erasing China in Japan's "Hong Kong Films" (Kwai Cheung Lo)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 11 The Emergence of the Asian Film Festival: Cold War Asia and Japan's Re-entrance to the Regional Film Industry in the 1950s (Sang Joon Lee)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 12 Yamagata - Asia - Europe: International Film Festival Short-Circuit (Abé Mark Nornes)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Part 3: What Japanese Cinema Is!: Japanese Cinema and the Intermedial Practices</b><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 13 Nitrate Film Production in Japan: a Historical Background of the Early Days (Okada Hidenori - Translated by Ayako Saito)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 14 Sketches of Silent Film Sound in Japan: Theatrical Functions of Ballyhoo, Orchestras and Kabuki Ensambles (Hosokawa Shuhei)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 15 The Jidaigeki Film Genre: Twilight Samurai and Its Contexts (Yamamoto Ichiro - Translated by Diane Wei Lewis)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 16 Occupation and Memory: the Representation of Woman's Body in Postwar Japanese Cinema (Ayako Saito)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 17 Cinema and Memory: Confabulated Memories, Nishijin (1961) (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 18 By Other Hands: Environment and Apparatus in 1960s Intermedia (Myriam Sas)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 19 Viral Contagion in the Ringu Intertext (Carlos Rojas)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Chapter 20 Manga/Anime/Games (the Media Mix) and the Metaphoric Economy of World (Alexander Zahlten)</span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.199999809265137px"><br>
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<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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