Four Books

[Alexander Jacoby]

As one of the contributors to Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts, can I reassure you that it doesn't have to cost you the alarming sum of $125. That is the price for the hardback edition, and for some reason Amazon doesn't yet seem to advertise the paperback as available, although it is, and I have a copy here in my house to prove it. It can be bought direct from Routledge for ?20, which in US money is about $40 and much more reasonable. No doubt there are other sources if you look around.
   
  Alarming that the paperback edition is not being correctly advertised as for sale on Amazon! Have any other authors or editors had this sort of experience?
  
ALEX

   
   
   
  

noble 1362 <noble1362 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer's Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts sounds great but at $125 much too rich for me!


    
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  Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:17:30 -0500
From: amnornes at umich.edu
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Four Books

Aaron's mention of the new Yoshida anthology reminded me that there are four new books worth mentioning by fellow travelers on KineJapan. I don't believe anyone has mentioned these, yet.   

  Fukujiki Hideaki published Zoshoku Suru Perusona through Nagoya UP. It's a thick, wonderfully researched study on early stardom in Japanese cinema. It sits nicely next to Daisuke Miyao's book from last year on Hayakawa. (You can read this in English by ordering his dissertation from 2005.)
  http://www.bk1.jp/product/02932473
  

  Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto published Ime-ji no Teikoku/Eiga no Owari through Ibunsha in Japan. He discusses the state of contemporary American cinema, with close analyses of Matrix, Saving Private Ryan, the recent Eastwood films, and others. 
    http://www.ibunsha.co.jp/
  


  Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer's Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts finally came out. It has 24 close textual analyses of Japanese films from all eras, and most of the writers are on this list. It looks like a fantastic book. 
    http://routledgemedia.com/books/Japanese-Cinema-isbn9780415328487
  


  And, finally, my Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema is out from Minnesota UP. Like Mitsuhiro's book, it's not really a book about Japanese cinema. Rather, it's my attempt to write about Japanese cinema in a global space, placing Kurosawa next to everything from multilingual Transylvanian silent films to Czech dubbings of mainstream Hollywod flicks. Examples from the entire history of Japanese cinema are sprinkled throughout. 
    http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/nornes_cinema.html
  

  Markus



       
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