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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No need to apologies, indeed this book would deserve a much bigger event! For this little
one, given the slot we have and the time difference, particularly with Japan/East Asia, it was mostly reduced to contributors who are or were related to SOAS Japan Research Centre and are around London area for practical reasons.<br>
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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 Earl Jackson via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 17 January 2023 21:20<br>
<b>To:</b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Earl Jackson <earljac@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [KineJapan] Book launch Companion to Japanese Cinema - SOAS, 24th Jan 4-6.30pm UK Time</font>
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<div dir="ltr">My second apology - I am so sorry for the tone, frankly I wrote that message during a peak time in an on-going back pain situation.
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<div style="font-family:arial">Earl Jackson</div>
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<div>National Chiao Tung University</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial">Associate Professor Emeritus</div>
<div style="font-family:arial">University of California, Santa Cruz<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 5:10 AM Earl Jackson <<a href="mailto:earljac@gmail.com">earljac@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Professor,
<div> My apologies if I sounded annoyed in the previous message, that was not my intention.</div>
<div>I understand that this was for contributors in the UK. </div>
<div>It will be very interesting and I definitely hope many will attend. I have read those papers and they are all fascinating and provocative in the best sense of the word.</div>
<div>Sincerely,</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial">Earl Jackson</div>
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<div>National Chiao Tung University</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 5:05 AM Earl Jackson <<a href="mailto:earljac@gmail.com" target="_blank">earljac@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Professor Centeno,
<div>This is the first I have heard of this book launch. I regret that I was not invited to participate.</div>
<div>Sincerely,</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial">Earl Jackson</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial">Associate Professor Emeritus</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 4:19 AM Marcos Pablo Centeno Martin (Other) via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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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><span style="font-size:12pt">Online. The event is free but you must register in advance
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<h3><span style="font-size:12pt">Japan Research Centre, SOAS. <br>
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<h3><span style="font-size:12pt">Book launch: </span><br>
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<h3>David Desser (ed.) <i>Companion to Japanese Cinema</i>. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2022</h3>
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<p>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> </em>This publication is part of the
<em>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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<li>Welcome<br>
Fabio Gygi, Chair, Japan Research Centre, SOAS University of London<br>
</li><li><em>Introduction</em><br>
By editor David Desser (University of Illinois)<br>
</li><li><em>Mad, Bad, and Beautiful: Revisiting Kurosawa’s Women</em><br>
Dolores P. Martinez (SOAS, University of London. University of Oxford)<br>
</li><li><em>Yoshimura Kozaburo and the Working Woman in the Old Capital</em><br>
Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)<br>
</li><li><em>Biographies of Loss: The Cinematic Melancholy of Kawase Naomi</em><br>
Erin Schoneveld (Haverford College)<br>
</li><li><em>Ainu in Documentary Films: Promiscuous Iconography and the Absent Image</em><br>
Marcos P. Centeno-Martín (University of Valencia. Birkbeck, University of London)<br>
</li><li><em>“Female Director”: Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japan</em><br>
Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández (University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid) and Irene González-López (Birkbeck, University of London)<br>
</li><li><em>’Scope and the City: Reframing a Modern Metropolis</em><br>
Jasper Sharp (<em>Midnight Eye</em>)</li></ul>
<p>Coordinated by Dr Marcos Centeno <a href="mailto:m.centeno@bbk.ac.uk" target="_blank">
m.centeno@bbk.ac.uk</a></p>
<p>Event hosted in partnership with the <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.jpf.org.uk%2f&c=E,1,y7EyllGOFx9SAfJtvuAYZYti6Hn9VIfFTBG81Sf-fjwH8Kw5DahXE7XCzNdGXqgPkGxa6nTSk5Pu8nnSTXGVAWgTyeyU3wUX9HTO6k-0mLmKP8J67DPukUCe0g,,&typo=1" target="_blank">
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