AAS Panel on Japanese screenplays

[Sybil Thornton]

Hi,

I am the respondent on another panel being proposed for AAS 2009.  If it is not accepted, I would be glad to be respondent on yours.

My name is Sybil Thornton, associate professor of history at ASU.  I specialize in Japanese period film, but also trained to be a filmmaker and have considedrable expertise in narratology in Japanese cinema, medieval epic, and other medieval texts.  

To see if I would suit your panel, please see my last book, The Japanese Period Film:  A Critical Analysis (MacFarland, 2007)

Cheers,
Sybil Thornton


--- On Tue, 8/12/08, Kerim Yasar <kerimyasar at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Kerim Yasar <kerimyasar at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: AAS Panel on Japanese screenplays
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 12:20 PM
> Dear KineJapaners,
> 
> I currently have the presenters lined up for this panel,
> but am still in need of a discussant. If there's anybody
> who would like to attend the AAS but isn't already
> committed to a panel, I would sincerely be delighted to hear
> from you by August 15th.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Kerim Yasar
> Boston University
> kyasar at bu.edu
> 
> --- On Sat, 7/26/08, Kerim Yasar
> <kerimyasar at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Kerim Yasar <kerimyasar at yahoo.com>
> Subject: AAS Panel on Japanese screenplays
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008, 1:15 AM
> 
> Dear KineJapaners,
> 
> I'm interested in organizing a panel for next
> year's Association for Asian Studies convention in
> Chicago (Mar. 26-29, 2009) dealing with with the literary
> and linguistic dimensions of Japanese screenplays.
> My own paper will deal with the role of wordplay in the
> postwar family
> dramas written by Ozu Yasujir? and Noda K?go.
> Potential topics include, but are not limited to, issues of
> literary
> adaptation, the use of dialect and slang, and problems of
> translation.
> My aim is to create a space to discuss Japanese screenplays
> as literary
> texts in their own right and not merely as blueprints for
> finished
> films, as tends to happen in film studies-oriented
> analyses.
> As such, I'd prefer papers that directly engage with
> the linguistic textures of the original Japanese.
> 
> If you're interested in participating as a presenter or
> discussant please contact me at kyasar at bu.edu. I need to
> submit the panel proposal by August 15th, so the sooner the
> better.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Kerim Yasar
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese
> Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
> Boston University
> 718 Commonwealth Avenue
> Boston, MA 02215