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<div>This is to invite you to the following book launch. While the volume edited by David Desser is comprised of 30 contributions from leading scholars in the field, the event will
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<h3 class="ContentPasted1 ContentPasted2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Japan Research Centre, SOAS.
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<h3 class="ContentPasted1">David Desser (ed.) <i>Companion to Japanese Cinema</i>. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2022</h3>
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<p class="ContentPasted1">This book offers an up-to-date and rigorous examination of historical and modern Japanese cinema edited by the distinguished scholar David Desser, Emeritus Professor from Univsrsity of Illinois, which counts on thirty contributors
by leading scholars in the field of Japanese Film. The book delivers insightful new material on the History, Ideology, and Aesthetics of Japanese cinema including under-appreciated directors, little-known stars and genres as well as innovative approaches to
gender issues, intermediality, documentary film and modernity among others.<em class="ContentPasted1">
</em>This publication is part of the <em class="ContentPasted1">Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
</em>series. The event counts on presentations by some of the US and UK/Europe-based contributors of the book.</p>
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<h3><strong class="ContentPasted1">Speakers and chapter presentations</strong></h3>
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<li class="ContentPasted1">Welcome<br class="ContentPasted1">
Fabio Gygi, Chair, Japan Research Centre, SOAS University of London<br class="ContentPasted1">
</li><li class="ContentPasted1"><em class="ContentPasted1">Introduction</em><br class="ContentPasted1">
By editor David Desser (University of Illinois)<br class="ContentPasted1">
</li><li class="ContentPasted1"><em class="ContentPasted1">Mad, Bad, and Beautiful: Revisiting Kurosawa’s Women</em><br class="ContentPasted1">
Dolores P. Martinez (SOAS, University of London. University of Oxford)<br class="ContentPasted1">
</li><li class="ContentPasted1"><em class="ContentPasted1">Yoshimura Kozaburo and the Working Woman in the Old Capital</em><br class="ContentPasted1">
Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)<br class="ContentPasted1">
</li><li class="ContentPasted1"><em class="ContentPasted1">Biographies of Loss: The Cinematic Melancholy of Kawase Naomi</em><br class="ContentPasted1">
Erin Schoneveld (Haverford College)<br class="ContentPasted1">
</li><li class="ContentPasted1"><em class="ContentPasted1">Ainu in Documentary Films: Promiscuous Iconography and the Absent Image</em><br class="ContentPasted1">
Marcos P. Centeno-Martín (University of Valencia. Birkbeck, University of London)<br class="ContentPasted1">
</li><li class="ContentPasted1"><em class="ContentPasted1">“Female Director”: Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japan</em><br class="ContentPasted1">
Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández (University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid) and Irene González-López (Birkbeck, University of London)<br class="ContentPasted1">
</li><li class="ContentPasted1"><em class="ContentPasted1">’Scope and the City: Reframing a Modern Metropolis</em><br class="ContentPasted1">
Jasper Sharp (<em class="ContentPasted1">Midnight Eye</em>)</li></ul>
<p class="ContentPasted1">Coordinated by Dr Marcos Centeno <a href="mailto:m.centeno@bbk.ac.uk" class="ContentPasted1" data-loopstyle="link">
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<p class="ContentPasted1">Event hosted in partnership with the <a href="https://www.jpf.org.uk/" class="ContentPasted1" data-loopstyle="link">
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