<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>The editors and a couple writers from the new <i>Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema</i> are doing a virtual book launch on April 9.  Naturally, they are part of our KineJapan community. Looking forward to this. </div><div><br></div><div>It's really an impressive book, but I have one gripe that's not the fault of the authors: it costs $250!  </div><div><br></div><div>People, send your great books to presses that will publish at prices we can afford. Forgive a plug for the UM Center for Japanese Publication Program. We have strong peer review, a great list of Japanese film books (Gerow, Lamarre, Yoshimoto, Miyao, Hirano, Yoshida, Bordwell, Richie, more!) and we do both hardbacks and paper at $20-35. And for unusual OA books, look to Kinema Club itself; we have a rigorous peer review process set up and are open to any proposal out there. </div><div><br></div><div>End of rant!  But if you haven't read this book yet, definitely do. Check out Joanne and Shota's table of contents! So rich!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Japanese-Cinema/Bernardi-Ogawa/p/book/9781138685529">https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Japanese-Cinema/Bernardi-Ogawa/p/book/9781138685529</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://events.rochester.edu/event/book_launch_routledge_handbook_of_japanese_cinema?fbclid=IwAR3iR3Bj5DOj5SY-b4UKlPEHSUG8B1vA42NOFRTqSPzZuNNneJlRS0owvsw#.YChCpPxHZvI" target="_blank"></a></div><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:22px;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;font-family:Raleway,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(55,71,79)">Book Launch: Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema</h1><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><a href="https://events.rochester.edu/">https://events.rochester.edu/</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">event/book_launch_routledge_</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">handbook_of_japanese_cinema?</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">fbclid=IwAR3iR3Bj5DOj5SY-</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">b4UKlPEHSUG8B1vA42NOFRTqSPzZuN</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium">NneJlRS0owvsw#.YChCpPxHZvI</span><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(55,71,79)" dir="auto"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.418;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.418;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Celebrate the publication of the book, co-edited and featuring contributions by Joanne Bernardi, Professor of Japanese (MLC) and Film and Media Studies, and Shota T. Ogawa (VCS ’14), Assistant Professor, Nagoya University, Japan. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">A useful resource for students and scholars of Japanese studies, film studies, and cultural studies more broadly, the volume brings together the work of twenty-one authors with diverse backgrounds, including three University of Rochester alumni, to illuminate the hybridity of approaches that define the field. Divided into four parts, it recasts traditional questions of authorship, genre, and industry in broad conceptual frameworks such as gender, media theory, archive studies, and neoliberalism.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.418;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Providing </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, it is the first anthology of Japanese cinema scholarship to span the temporal framework of 200 years, from the vibrant magic lantern culture of the nineteenth century to the formation of the film industry in the twentieth century, culminating in cinema’s migration to gaming, surveillance video, and other new media platforms of the twenty-first century.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.418;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Featured presentations in this event will include short presentations by the co-editors and three contributors:</span></span></span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;line-height:1.6;list-style:initial;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Joanne Bernardi, Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Shota Ogawa, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University (</span>’<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">14 VCS)</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Joel Anderson, Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Purchase (’20 VCS)</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Daniel Johnson, Faculty Fellow, NYU Arts & Sciences (’05 FMS)</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Kyoko Omori, Associate Professor, Hamilton College</span></span></span></li></ul></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:5px 15px 0px 0px;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;border-top-color:rgb(240,242,243);color:rgb(55,71,79)"><abbr title="2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(10,10,10)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1;display:inline-block;font-stretch:normal;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:inherit;width:16px;text-align:center"></span> Friday, April 9 at 12:00pm </abbr>to <abbr title="2021-04-09T13:30:00-04:00" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(10,10,10)">1:30pm</abbr></p><span style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1;display:inline-block;font-stretch:normal;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:14px;color:rgb(55,71,79)"></span><span style="font-family:"PT Sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(55,71,79)"> 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