<div dir="ltr"><div>Johan
Nordström
and I are pleased to announce the publication of <i>The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan</i>, an anthology on the transition to sound in Japanese cinema. We're fortunate to have some terrific contributions from established and emerging Japanese scholars of the period. It's expensive but I hope the book can find its way into libraries and some personal collections.
I've pasted the table of contents below.
</div><div><br></div><div><div>The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan<br></div><div>Table of Contents<br><br></div><div>Introduction / Michael Raine and Johan Nordström<br>1. A Genealogy of kouta eiga: Silent Moving Pictures with Sound / Sasagawa Keiko<br>2. Katsutaro's Trilogy: Popular Song and Film in the Transitional Era from Silent Film to the Talkie / Hosokawa Shuhei<br>3. Japanese Cinema and the Radio: The Sound Space of Unseen Cinema / Niita Chie<br>4. Architecture of Sound: The Modernization of Cinematic Space in Japan / Ueda Manabu<br>5. 'No Interpreter, Full Volume': the Benshi and the Sound Transition in 1930s Japan / Michael Raine<br>6. The Image of the Modern Talkie Film Studio: Aesthetics and Technology at P.C.L. / Johan Nordström<br>7. The Dawn of the Talkies in Japan: Mizoguchi Kenji's Hometown / Nagato Yohei<br>8. The Early talkie frame in Japanese cinema / Itakura Fumiaki<br>Index</div></div><div><br></div><div>The publisher's page is at:<br></div><div><a href="https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647733/the-culture-of-the-sound-image-in-prewar-japan">https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647733/the-culture-of-the-sound-image-in-prewar-japan</a><br></div><div>There's a link on that page to a flyer and a pdf of the introductory chapter, which I've also attached to this email. If you know anyone who would be interested, please let them know!</div><div><br></div><div>The book is available to order at:</div><div><a href="https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647733/the-culture-of-the-sound-image-in-prewar-japan">https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647733/the-culture-of-the-sound-image-in-prewar-japan</a>; </div><div>and in the US at:</div><div><a href="http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9789089647733">http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9789089647733</a>. </div><div>There's a 20% off code that can be used at checkout: Pub_SoundImage. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Michael Raine, Western University, Canada</div><div>co-editor, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>