Book & Video news

[M Arnold]

I talked about the pink films I mentioned here the other day to a nearby
friend, and he lent me a copy of Murai Minoru's _Hadaka no Yume Nendaiki:
Boku no Pinku Eiga-shi_ (1989, Yamato Shobo).  Murai seems to take an...
interesting approach to the history of Japanese 'Borno' movies.  Does anyone
know where I could find a copy of this book used?  I've got about one more
month before I'm moving back to the U.S., so if possible I want to track it
down before I leave.

The independent video distribution group Video Act has released a new tape
called "Nippon Senso Watashi 2002," a compilation of 30 short videos that
were sent in for an event of the same title held in March of this year.
Participation was open to the public, and other than a 3 minute limit there
were no real restrictions, so the result is a very unique mix of videotaped
thoughts from different people on the topic of (loosely) Japan and war.  The
tape is only 1000 yen plus shipping, but I believe Video Act plans to put
the videos on the web sooner or later as well.
http://www1.jca.apc.org/videoact/3minutes/index.html
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/atsukoba/vact/020328c.htm

On a similar topic, two days ago I went to a bookstore and picked up the
July issue (Vol.30-9) of the journal Gendai Shiso.  This month's topic is
"War and Media," and the book contains essays from the Senso to Media
symposium that took place at the Nichi-Butsu Kaikan in Ebisu at the end of
last March.  I can't find any info on the web right now but I believe
Amazon.jp and other retailers will sell this issue sooner or later.

Michael Arnold