New Publication: ?Against the Grain. Changes in Japanese cinema of the 1960s and early 1970s?

[Roland Domenig]

Dear KineJapan-members,

allow me to draw your attention to a new publication. The proceedings of the symposium “Against the Grain. Changes in Japanese cinema of the 1960s and early 1970s” organized by the Austrian Japan-Society for Science and Art (AAJ) on the occasion of the ATG retrospective at the Viennale 2003 have finally been published as special issue of the magazine MINIKOMI. The issue features six articles by the participants of the symposium as well as two long interviews with producer Kuzui Kinshiro and director Wakamatsu Koji. 
The issue costs 7 Euro (plus postage) and can be ordered trough the AAJ-Website: http://www.aaj.at/MinikomiAktuell.html
 
MINIKOMI Nr. 70 
Special Edition: “Against the Grain. Changes in Japanese cinema of the 1960s and early 1970s” edited by Roland Domenig. 72 pages. 

CONTENT:

04	Editorial

	ARTICLES

07	Roland Domenig
	“A brief history of independent cinema in Japan and the role of the Art Theatre Guild”

18	Hirasawa Gô
	“ATG’s early years and underground cinema”

28	Yomota Inuhiko
	“Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’ATG. Two or three things I know about ATG”

34	Roberta Novielli
	“First traces of media contamination in Japanese cinema of the 1960s”

38	Max Tessier
	“The power of the imaginary in the films of the Japanese new wave in the 1960s and early 1970s”

42	Mark Nornes 
	“ATG in a forest of pressure”

	INTERVIEWS

50	Kuzui Kinshirô
	“I think it was my life”

61	Wakamatsu Kôji
	“I didn’t care about movements”

70	Authors/Impressum	 

The 1960s and early 1970s were a turbulent period in Japanese film history. After a period of continuing growth and what often is called the Second Golden Age of Japanese Cinema the 1960s say a drastic drop in attendance figures, the decline of the studio system and the emergence of new forces: the rise of experimental film and sexploitation, the advent of the student and amateur film scene, new modes in documentary film and a diversified and innovative independent cinema. The boundaries were permeable, allowing filmmakers to move from one field to another, and interactions between different fields became quite common. The institution that not only reflects the changes in Japanese cinema of this period best, but that was an important motor behind these changes was the Art Theatre Guild. Founded in 1961 as independent distributor of foreign art-house films, in 1967 it began to produce its own films and remained for two decades one of the most creative and innovative institutions within Japanese cinema. The articles explore the environment that enabled these developments which had a lasting impact on Japanese cinema up until today. 

The MINIKOMI issue complements the bilingual (German/English) catalogue about the Art Theatre Guild which I edited for the Viennale in 2003. The 174 pages catalogue can be ordered through the Viennale: http://www.viennale.at/cgi-bin/viennale/shop_final/list.pl?item=111&lang=en&xslfile=full   

Roland Domenig
Institute of East Asian Studies, Vienna University 
Austrian Japan-Society for Science and Art (AAJ)

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