AAS Panel on Japanese screenplays

[Kerim Yasar]

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



      
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