Four Books

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At the begining of this year there was a posting and mentioning of new books on Japanese film. I think that there was a strand of comments concerning the high costs of?the books which I fully agree. Nevertheless I did ?bite the bullet and through Amazon purchased the Phillips/Stringer JAPANESE CINEMA TEXTS AND CONTEXTS (for about list @$36.00).

It was very good. At least the first third was, I left it on a plane. As much as I wanted to finish it, I?and could not quite bear to buy another one. That was several months ago but- I came across it at 25% off (?$25). It was in an independent bookstore?and there seemed to be several copies.??

The gist of this is that if there are other members who would be interested and could get back to me reasonably quickly (next few days) I would be glad to pick up a copy for them. If there is enough response perhaps the store would help out even more. 


Anyway I think that if click on the title as part of Markus' original message the spcifics about the book might appear under Routledge the publisher.?

 Fred


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu>
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Sent: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 7:17 am
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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