Books

[J.sharp]

We have a huge book review section on Midnight Eye in which we look at
various titles in depth:
www.midnighteye.com/books/index.shtml

Peronsally I think you can't do without Anderson and Richie's original
Japanese Film: Art and Industry on your bookshelf, and failing that,
Richie's more recent A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. Don't care what
people say about Richie, in terms of sheer factual history, his first book
cant be beaten.

The most interesting books I've read have in recent years have been Mark
Nornes books on documentary - his latest on Shinsuke Ogawa was an epiphany,
while the anthology he edited Japan/America Film Wars, though a good 15
years old, is still hugely informative.

Needless to say, if you are interested in the war years, Peter High's The
Imperial Screen is a must.

I really recommend Kyoko Hirano's Mr Smith Goes to Washington on the
occupation years. Really fascinating stuff. And David Desser's Eros Plus
Massacre also gives an elucidating look at a fascinating period of time in a
Japanese filmmaking, the 60s.

One of the seminal texts, Noel Burch's To the Distant Observer, should be
available from the University of Michigan's website as a free downloadable
pdf, but I cant seem to find the link offhand. Many have reservations about
this one, but still worth ploughing through if you're feeling brave.

This should certainly get you started.


Jasper




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--------- Original Message --------
From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: Books
Date: 19/09/07 07:40

> Isolde Standish's _New History of Japanese Cinema_Mark Nornes _Japanese
Documentary Film_Brian Ruh's _Stray Dog of Anime: the Films of Oshii
Mamoru_Keiko MacDonald's _How to Read a Japanese Film_spring to mind...Tim
IlesUniversity of VictoriaJim Harper &lt;jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk&gt; wrote:
Mark Schilling's Contemporary Japanese Cinema is anexcellent overview of
recent Japanese cinema. It'sreviewed based primarily, but also includes
somedecent interviews and several detailed essays on thecurrent state of the
industry. Along with The MidnightEye Guide, it's the most dog-eared
andin-dire-need-of-replacing book in my Japanese cinemacollection.If it's
cult cinema you're after, Tom Mes's books onMiike and Shinya Tsukamoto are
absolutely invaluable.Jim
>  Harper.--- noble 1362  wrote:&gt; I am new to this list and perhaps this
is a&gt; simplistic question but can anyone recommend books&gt; to read? I
have read Donald Richie, 100 years of&gt; Japanese Film and The Midnight Eye
Guide to new&gt; Japanese Film and a few others. I now have over $350&gt;
worth of books in my wish list on Amazon and need to&gt; narrow it down
considerably. Thank you in advance&gt; for any help.&gt;  &gt; Oh, and I can
not read japanese (unfortunately).&gt;  &gt;
Thankshttp://www.flipsidemovies.comhttp://jimharper.blogspot.com     
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