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Thank you for sharing your book review with us. No need to apologize! I am also thrilled to see these new volumes!</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 15, 2022 7:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Markus Nornes <nornes@umich.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KineJapan] So I wrote a book review...</font>
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<div>I wrote a book review. I jotted down my thoughts about the recent slew of handbooks on Japanese cinema. I couldn't help thinking about my first encounter with Japanese cinema scholarship, so it begins...</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Granjon">Thirty-five years ago I was browsing through the stacks of a used bookstore in Boulder, Colorado, when I stumbled on a cache of Japanese cinema books. Having just discovered Mizoguchi and Kurosawa, I impulsively
bought the lot. In an instant, I had acquired most of the English-language literature on this national cinema that had been published over various years, which now sit at the corner of a shelf in my office. </span><span style="font-family:Granjon; font-size:11pt">Today
I am amazed by the fact that a slew of newly released Japanese cinema anthologies take up roughly the same amount of space....</span><span style="font-family:Granjon; font-size:11pt">That they all arrive more or less at once suggests they are symptomatic of
an important moment—of an inflection point, a bottleneck, or even a crisis.</span><span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:Granjon; font-size:11pt"> </span></blockquote>
<p><span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:Granjon; font-size:11pt">If you want to read more, head to your library. If your library doesn't have FQ, drop me a line off stage and I'll help. </span></p>
<p><span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="font-family:Granjon; font-size:11pt">I must apologize to Daisuke, Julian and Nikki. I initially pitched a review that would include the Oxford handbook and the Routledge 4-volume set retrospective of the
field. However, FQ wouldn't let me because they were "too old." I hope everyone reads them all. </span></p>
<p><font face="Granjon"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px">There are some 111 essays between all these new handbooks. It's rather astounding that there's basically no overlapping or redundancies. Japanese cinema presents that rich a topic, and you
folks are just so impressive. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Granjon"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px">Markus</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Granjon"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px">===================================</span></font></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; font-style:italic">The Japanese Cinema Book</span></div>
, edited by<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="x_gmail-name x_gmail-string-name" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; display:inline">Hideaki Fujiki</span><span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="x_gmail-name x_gmail-string-name" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; display:inline">Alastair
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<span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; font-style:italic">Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema</span></div>
, edited by<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="x_gmail-name x_gmail-string-name" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; display:inline">Joanne Bernardi</span><span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="x_gmail-name x_gmail-string-name" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; display:inline">Shota
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<span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; font-style:italic">A Companion to Japanese Cinema</span></div>
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BOOK DATA Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips, eds.,<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; font-style:italic">The Japanese Cinema Book</span>. London: Bloomsbury/BFI, 2020.
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Joanne Bernardi and Shota T. Ogawa, eds.,<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; font-style:italic">Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema</span>. New York: Routledge, 2020.
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