Film availability

[J Rand]

Thank you for the information.  I will make enquiries to see whether it is
at all feasible for me to be able to fund myself to undertake study in the
U.S.  Unfortunately, as a single parent I still have some family
obligations, and invariably my choices are limited but its certainly worth
pursing.  I will also contact the Japan foundation over here as suggested.

janet

----- Original Message -----
From: Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow <onogerow at angel.ne.jp>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Film availability


> Janet wrote:
>
> >Having recently completed a Masters Degree looking at the work of
Yasujiro
> >Ozu I am now considering undertaking a Phd  on some aspect of Japanese
> >cinema.  I was wondering if anyone might have any ideas on how I might
get
> >to view a reasonably wide spectrum of Japanese cinema as the location
where
> >I live in South West England makes this really difficult.  I cannot
afford
> >to travel widely to film festivals and read rather enviously the list of
> >Mitzoguchi films to be seen in Munich.  The difficulty of viewing these
> >films automatically puts them into an exclusive category which apart from
> >being very frustrating for people like myself, I think is also a great
shame
> >for the cinema going population at large.
>
> I wasn't sure if you were just asking where you might see films, or,
> where you might go to get a PhD where you can see films.  If it is just
> the former, then I'm afraid I don't know too much about availability in
> the UK (though you might want to try the Japan Foundation office there:
> they might have some films available).  But one of the best places in the
> world to view Japanese films cheaply is the US Library of Congress.  The
> service is free and they have literally hundreds of prewar Japanese films
> (almost all without subtitles).  If you can afford to go the States and
> stay in Washington DC for a month, you could see over a hundred films in
> that time.
>
> If you are interested in a PhD program, but cannot handle coming to
> Japan, I would recommend the US, in part for the Library of Congress, but
> also because several universities have PhD programs which support work on
> Japanese film.  I, Michael Raine, and Mitsuyo Wada Marciano all came out
> of the University of Iowa, which has a good library which is currently
> actively aquiring subtitled and non-subtitled prints.  Markus Nornes
> teaches at the University of Michigan, which is also aquiring materials.
> Other list members may want to plug their own programs.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>