<div dir="ltr">Dear Marcus,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your response.<br><div><br></div><div>The full title is:</div><div><br></div><div>This Great Stage of Fools: An anthology of uncollected writings</div><div><br></div><div>by Alan Booth</div><div><br></div><div>edited by Timothy Harris, with an afterword by Karel van Wolferen.</div><div><br></div><div>Published by Bright Wave Media Inc, Yokohama </div><div>(connexion: <a href="mailto:books@brightwavemedia.com">books@brightwavemedia.com</a> -- it can be ordered directly from the publisher, as well as from <a href="http://amazon.com">amazon.com</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>ISBN 978-0-9899163-1-8</div></div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div>Timothy Harris</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 22:56, <<a href="mailto:kinejapan-request@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan-request@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to<br>
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From: Timothy Harris <<a href="mailto:tjgharris@gmail.com" target="_blank">tjgharris@gmail.com</a>><br>
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I am the editor of 'This Great Stage of Fools' ( <a href="http://brightwavemedia.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">brightwavemedia.com</a> ) , an<br>
anthology of shorter writings by Alan Booth, author of the very<br>
well-received 'The Roads to Sata' (Weatherhill & Penguin) and 'Looking for<br>
the Lost'' (Kodansha). The introduction is by myself, and there is an<br>
afterword by Karel van Wolferen. These shorter writings include well over<br>
100 pages of the reviews of Japanese film that Booth wrote for the Asahi<br>
Evening News between 1979 and 1990 (I was his editor). The reviews are<br>
very perceptive and beautifully written, and provide a very good account of<br>
what was happening in Japanese cinema in the decade 1979-1989. The<br>
remainder of the book is given over to pieces on Japanese festivals and<br>
folksongs, two long articles on the great Tsugaru shamisen player Takahashi<br>
Chikuzan and on a walk the length of Shikoku, and some final, and<br>
harrowingly funny essays on what it is like to die from cancer -- Booth<br>
died in 1993.<br>
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The book contains some of Booth's best writing, and the film reviews are,<br>
by any standards, extraordinary in their perceptiveness and quality of<br>
judgement. Since I was his close friend, his editor for many years during<br>
his life, and editor of this book after his death, I am obviously<br>
prejudiced in his favour, but I should be very grateful for any advice from<br>
subscribers to kinejapan as to how it might be possible to get this book<br>
better known among those who are interested in Japanese cinema.<br>
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Timothy Harris<br>
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Timothy, can you post the ISBN, etc, so it?s easy to forward to librarians?<br>
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Markus<br>
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On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:37 AM Timothy Harris <<a href="mailto:tjgharris@gmail.com" target="_blank">tjgharris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I am the editor of 'This Great Stage of Fools' ( <a href="http://brightwavemedia.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">brightwavemedia.com</a> ) ,<br>
> an anthology of shorter writings by Alan Booth, author of the very<br>
> well-received 'The Roads to Sata' (Weatherhill & Penguin) and 'Looking for<br>
> the Lost'' (Kodansha). The introduction is by myself, and there is an<br>
> afterword by Karel van Wolferen. These shorter writings include well over<br>
> 100 pages of the reviews of Japanese film that Booth wrote for the Asahi<br>
> Evening News between 1979 and 1990 (I was his editor). The reviews are<br>
> very perceptive and beautifully written, and provide a very good account of<br>
> what was happening in Japanese cinema in the decade 1979-1989. The<br>
> remainder of the book is given over to pieces on Japanese festivals and<br>
> folksongs, two long articles on the great Tsugaru shamisen player Takahashi<br>
> Chikuzan and on a walk the length of Shikoku, and some final, and<br>
> harrowingly funny essays on what it is like to die from cancer -- Booth<br>
> died in 1993.<br>
><br>
> The book contains some of Booth's best writing, and the film reviews are,<br>
> by any standards, extraordinary in their perceptiveness and quality of<br>
> judgement. Since I was his close friend, his editor for many years during<br>
> his life, and editor of this book after his death, I am obviously<br>
> prejudiced in his favour, but I should be very grateful for any advice from<br>
> subscribers to kinejapan as to how it might be possible to get this book<br>
> better known among those who are interested in Japanese cinema.<br>
><br>
> Timothy Harris<br>
><br>
><br>
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