Two books

Aaron Gerow aaron.gerow at yale.edu
Sat Jul 29 07:47:50 EDT 2006


Two books have just come out that I thought people might be interested 
in.

The first is:

IN GODZILLA'S FOOTSTEPS
Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage
Edited by William M. Tsutsui and Michiko Ito
 From Palgrave Macmillan
$24.95 - Paperback (1-4039-6463-7)

This is mostly an outgrowth of the Godzilla conference at the 
University of Kansas in the fall of 2004, but it includes contributions 
by a number of KineJapan members, including Michiko Ito (who co-edited 
with Bill Tsutsui), Mark Anderson, Joanne Bernardi, and myself. This is 
the blurb from the Palgrave site:	
These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they were shaped (by 
and in turn shaped) postwar Japanese culture, as well as the 
globalization of Japanese pop culture icons in the wake of the Godzilla 
phenomenon. They fall within a wide range of disciplines: film studies, 
anthropology, history, literature, theater, and cultural studies. 
Contributors include Susan Napier, Anne Allison, Christine Yano, and 
others.

The second book is:

EIGA TAIYO OFISHARU BUKKU (The Sun Official Book)
By Aleksander Sokurov, et al.
Ota Shuppan. ISBN 4778310284 (1980 yen)
映画「太陽」オフィシャルブック
アレクサンドル・ソクーロフ他著
太田出版刊

As some of you may know, Sokurov's Solntse (The Sun), which is 
considered the first dramatic film to feature Emperor Hirohito as the 
lead character, is finally opening in Japan on August 5th. Many thought 
it would never be released because of taboos over representing the 
Emperor, but with recent revelations about Hirohito's attitudes towards 
Yasukuni, it seems to have become a timely film. This Japanese book 
features a wide variety of figures from the left and right discussing 
the film and the problems of representing the war and the emperor. 
Contributors include Adachi Masao, Izuchi Kishu, Ueno Koshi, Otsuki 
Takahiro, Kawamoto Saburo, Sato Tadao, Shimada Masahiko, Suga Hidemi, 
Tsuchiya Yutaka, Nishibe Susumu, Miyadai Shinji, Mori Tatsuya, Monma 
Takashi, Yomota Inuhiko, Watanabe Naomi, and myself. (KineJapan member 
Yamamoto Naoki helped with the translations.)


Aaron Gerow
Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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