Zipangu & doc film

Mark Anderson ander025
Wed Jan 9 02:34:05 EST 2002


One more word on the Times and then I'll shut up. My point would be that 
Japan must surely be a limit case of economic power, long-time U.S. ally, 
similarity in levels of economic development and the importance of 
consumerism and popular culture in daily life and yet they seem to register 
on the Times' radar at a level comparable to Fiji.
                                         Mark Anderson

At 12:33 PM 1/9/02 +0800, you wrote:
>I think there's a film connection here, too, if
>memory serves correctly.  I think one of the
>Zipangu collective (who seem to enunciate solely
>under that name, without individual
>spokesperson), is the doc. film-maker Kurihara
>Nanako.  She made a 1993 doc. on second-wave-
>ish Japanese feminism called Ripples of
>Change, also during the Japan-bashing years,
>distributed by Women Make Movies.  It too relies
>on the US-Japan dialectic for illustrating the
>author's self-discovery, enabled by leaving Japan
>in favor of New York, but is more a 'personal is
>political' kind of film essay.  Certainly more
>palatable than the insufferable first-person
>testimonials of Kristof being disappointed with the
>lived experience of 90s Japan!  Although I have to
>say that this disenchantment with the postwar's
>most favored nation is playing out interestingly in
>media coverage of other geo-politics, most
>notably the NYX coverage of the middle east, its
>least-favored territory.
>
>Anne
>
>on 1/8/02 10:55 PM, Roddey Reid at
>rreid at ucsd.edu wrote:
>
>Readers of this list may be interested in a
>Japanese/English publication that appeared in
>September 1998 titled Warawareru nihonjin/
>Japan: Made in USA. It contained articles by
>Japanese and American journalists and scholars
>dissecting the NYT long-standing reportorial
>pratices with respect to Japan. There is even reply
>by the notorious Nicolas De Kristof. Published by
>Zipangu (IBN4-8123-0615-9), it was released at a
>special colloquium organized by the International
>House in Tokyo.
>
>Roddey Reid
>
>on 1/8/02 10:55 PM, Roddey Reid at
>rreid at ucsd.edu wrote:
>
>--
>
>
>Anne McKnight
>Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies
>3434 McTavish
>McGill University
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