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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Hello
everyone,<span></span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><br><br></span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">I’m
currently based at Waseda University as a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow and
we are organising an online symposium on women and intermediality in pre-war
Japanese film culture to take place in December. With this we are of course
also building on the invaluable work of other KineJapaners and hope it might be
of interest to some of you. I am sending the Call for Papers attached in
English and Japanese and will paste it below. It is also available online here,
deadline for proposals is 05 Sep 2021. <span></span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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free to pass this on to anybody who might be interested and don’t hesitate to
get in touch with questions or comments!<span></span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><br><br></span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">With best
wishes,<span></span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><br><br></span></span></span></font><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Kerstin <br>
</span></font></span></p><h1 style="margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;break-after:avoid;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)" lang="EN-GB">CALL FOR PAPERS<span></span></span></b></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="gmail-MsoSubtitle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;color:rgb(90,90,90);letter-spacing:0.75pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Performing Intermediality </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
New Perspectives on Women’s Creative Contributions to Pre-War Japanese Film Culture<span></span></span></b></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Online Symposium <span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Saturday 11 December 2021<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Society for Studies of Theatre and Film
Arts, Waseda University, Tokyo<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">This symposium aims to cast new
perspectives on women’s creative contributions to the increasingly intermedial
filmmaking landscape as the Japanese film industry transitioned from silent to
sound film. Since during the 1920s and 1930s women in Japan hardly had any
opportunity to take up established filmmaking occupations such as directors,
editors or scriptwriters, conventional media-historical approaches often
struggle to acknowledge forms of women’s creative work in the industry, apart
from appearing on screen. Through which methods and what kind of sources then
can we recognise the work of women and how can Japanese film history better
attest to their contributions? In this symposium we seek to explore how
approaching the concept of intermediality not only as object but rather, as
suggested by scholars such as Lúcia Nagib, as method of study might present a
way forward. Understanding intermediality as a method of study de-privileges
films themselves and the mostly male-dominated established filmmaking
occupations as analytical focal points by rejecting hierarchical relations
between the different artforms involved. Such an understanding could facilitate
access to a broader sense of film culture and its film-related creative
practices in which the range of women’s creative work becomes more obvious
while diversifying our understanding of the pre-war Japanese filmmaking
landscape in general.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Building onto indispensable existing
research, we seek to bring together a broad range of case studies of women
primarily in a contextualised performer-centred approach who worked across
different media in relation to film production inside but also outside of the
established studio and exhibition structures, of work that is extant or not.
Our focus is on the long transition from silent to sound film but there is
flexibility on both ends of this period. Equally, we are interested in women
who worked in Japan as well as those who might have been active in Japan’s
colonies at the time.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></b></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196)"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Case studies could involve but
are certainly not limited to:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196);font-style:italic"><b><span style="color:black;font-style:normal" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></b></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-Female actors who were active across
different media, focussing on their work with SP records or radio plays etc.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-Female singers who performed theme songs
for <i>kouta</i>/ballad- and other films<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-Female dancers who appeared or were
featured in films popularising related dances<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-Female performers who performed live in
cinema interval attractions <span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-Female <i>benshi</i><span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 7.1pt;text-align:justify"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></b></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196)"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">For a broad range of insights
into women’s contributions, we also welcome more established approaches to:</span></b></span><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196);font-style:italic"><b><span style="color:black;font-style:normal" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></b></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-Female-led film production companies<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-Female writers on film and cinema culture
<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">-New perspectives on the work of Sakane
Tazuko<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We are also open to critical discussions
of methodologies and sources; problematising the notion of searching for female
creative agency within the industry etc. <span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></b></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196)"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Submissions:<span> </span></span></b></span><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196);font-style:italic"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></b></span><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196);font-style:italic"><b><span style="color:black;font-style:normal" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></b></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We invite proposals for papers of 20-30
minutes to be given in English or Japanese. Please submit paper titles and
abstracts of ca. 300 words, along with a short bio <b><u>by 5 September 2021</u></b>
to: <span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:performing.intermediality@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><b><span>performing.intermediality@gmail.com</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></b></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span><span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196)"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Organised by the Seminar for Film
History of Prof. Hiroshi Komatsu at Waseda University, Tokyo</span></b></span><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196)"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></b></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196)"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Co-Organised by the Society for
Studies of Theatre and Film Arts, Waseda University, Tokyo</span></b></span><span class="gmail-MsoIntenseEmphasis" style="color:rgb(68,114,196);font-style:italic"><b><span style="color:black;font-style:normal" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></b></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr Kerstin Fooken, JSPS International
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Principal Organiser)<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Yuki Irikura, PhD Candidate, JSPS Research
Fellow DC1 (Co-Organiser)<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr Kerstin
Fooken<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">JSPS International
Postdoctoral Research Fellow<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Waseda
University, Tokyo<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:kfooken2@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">kfooken2@gmail.com</a><span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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