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Thank you for your kind words, David. I will contact the press about this as well.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 22, 2020 9:58 AM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Desser, David M <desser@illinois.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [KineJapan] Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema</font>
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We shall be getting the book presently from Duke. My wife is book review editor for<i> Quarterly</i>
<i>Review of Film and Video</i>. Perhaps I will review it or perhaps we'll send it out.</div>
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Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies and Comparative and World Literature</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 21, 2020 8:43 PM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Miyao, Daisuke <dmiyao@ucsd.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KineJapan] Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema</font>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please allow me to promote myself. My new book,
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and the Birth of Cinema</i></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important; line-height:normal">, Daisuke Miyao explores the influence of Japanese art
on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:Helvetica," sans-serif"; font-size:17px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><span class="x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i style="box-sizing:border-box; line-height:normal">actualit�</i></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51); font-family:Helvetica," sans-serif"; font-size:17px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><span class="x_x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important; line-height:normal">films
made by the Lumi�re brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumi�re films, Miyao contends that more than being documents of everyday life, they provided a medium for experimenting with aesthetic and cinematic styles imported from Japan. Miyao
further analyzes the Lumi�re films produced in Japan as a negotiation between French Orientalism and Japanese aesthetics. The Lumi�re films, Miyao shows, are best understood within a media ecology of photography, painting, and cinema, all indebted to the compositional
principles of Japonisme and the new ideas of kinetic realism it inspired. The Lumi�re brothers and their cinematographers shared the contemporaneous obsession among Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists about how to instantly and physically capture
the movements of living things in the world. Their engagement with Japonisme, he concludes, constituted a rich and productive two-way conversation between East and West.</span><br>
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