Film availability [in SW England]

[Domenico Valle]

which german university are you thinking wehen youa are sayint that it has a great
catalog of japanese movies?#
thanks

domenico valle
Stephen Cremin schrieb:

> There are no viewing facilities in the Japanese Embassy or Japan Foundation
> in London.  Best bet is the viewing facilities of the British Film Institute
> Library on Stephen Street but its expensive and largely restricted to films
> on videotapes that screened in the London Film Festival.  I haven't heard
> anything about it in the past year, but SOAS [University of London's School
> of Oriental & African Studies] were planning to launch a Japanese film
> course around now.  Has anybody heard anything about this, and the nature of
> the course?  The other problem of course is finding a library with a strong
> collection of Japanese film materials and SOAS is lacking here but BFI
> Library has a strong collection of non-Japanese language materials on
> Japanese film.  You'll have a tough job finding any collections of Kinema
> Junpo that go back more than three or four years in the UK.  And of course
> you also need to find at least one good tutur which kind of rules out Great
> Britain as well to my knowledge unless you take - for example - a literary
> angle.  If America is too far or too expensive, how about Germany where at
> least one university has a great Japanese film collection.  And aren't
> universities free in Germany, even for overseas students?  How's your
> German?
>
> But if you are stuck in SW England, best bet is to find a subject which can
> be researched on video, VCD or DVD which although isn't the best way to view
> films, may be the only option available to you.  If you can't understand
> Japanese, the range is further restricted to subtitled fare.  In that case
> there are enough resources for you to focus on a handful of directors
> (Kurosawa A., Kitano, Suo, Tsukamoto, Iwai, recent films of Harada Masato),
> actors (Asano, Yakusho) or even contemporary comedy and psycho-horror films.
>  Also check out what big film seasons are planned for Japan 2001 in the UK
> over the next eighteen months.  Last I heard - and again this was over a
> year ago - it was Miyazaki and Zatoichi.  If your interest is broader,
> there might be a thesis in looking at the image of Japan in contemporary
> Hong Kong cinema which is easy to research and there is a pretty strong
> generational divide emerging this year as more and more filmmakers use it as
> a location.
>
> Stephen Cremin
>
> (Trying to fix the damn date on this machine)
>
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> >From: Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow <onogerow at angel.ne.jp>
> >To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> >Subject: Re: Film availability
> >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 00 21:37:21 +0900
> >
>
> >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.