<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">Dear KineJapaners,</span><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">I’m happy to announce that my new book, <i class="">Dialectics without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame</i>, is now available. This is a product of many unexpected, but no less stimulating, trans-Pacific encounters I was lucky to have during the past years. Kudos go first to my great teachers at Meiji Gakuin and Yale, as well as to many of my colleagues on this list. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">You can read the book’s Introduction at the UC Press's website (click “Google Preview”). You can also get a 30% discount if you use the code “17M6662” at checkout!</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520351806/dialectics-without-synthesis" class="">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520351806/dialectics-without-synthesis</a></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">In addition, I’ll give an online book talk on <b class="">Friday, September 18, 5PM EST</b>, as part of the Modern Japanese Culture Webinar Series organized by Luciana Sanga of Northwestern University. You are welcome to join this event, but please contact me offline if you are interested in attending. I’ll send you an individual invitation. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">All the best,</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Naoki</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Naoki Yamamoto</span><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Assistant Professor</span><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">Film and Media Studies</font><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;">University of California, Santa Barbara</span><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;"></div><a href="mailto:yamamoto@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;">yamamoto@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu</a><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></body></html>