28th JASIAS Conference

[Sarah Teasley]

> Not that I can tell. This year didn't have the usual excursion and they 
> concentrated the papers in one day, but the number of papers was about 
> the same. Film papers again dominated, with some interesting work among 
> the papers I saw. Seems research on chanbara is popular these days.

Chambara research does seem to be popping up here and there lately. One just-published take on chambara from a somewhat different angle is Izumo Marou's Chambara Queen (Pandora (publisher), Gendai Shokan (distributor), June 2002), which reads 1950s and 60s chambara films from a queer perspective that balances entertainment and pointedly theoretical insights in a very approachable and absorbing way. 

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Sarah Teasley/ The University of Tokyo




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Sarah Teasley / batgirl at tkb.att.ne.jp