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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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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 21, 2020 8:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces@mailman.yale.edu>; Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Miyao, Daisuke <dmiyao@ucsd.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KineJapan] Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema</font>
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has been just published from Duke University Press. Here is the book description:</span></div>
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<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">In</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_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">Japonisme
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_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">actualité</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_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 Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière 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 Lumière films produced in Japan as a negotiation between French Orientalism and Japanese aesthetics. The Lumière 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 Lumière 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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<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</span></div>
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