Kani kosen boom?

[Anne McKnight]

Yes, I was just reading about this. There is a very interesting taidan  
between Takahashi Genichir? and Amamiya Karin--of New God and Peep  
'TV' Show fame in the Mainichi on January 9 of this year about the  
"boom." It ironically seems to have been stoked by the publisher, as  
one of the grad students (who might want to chime in here...) pointed  
out in class the other day. I think the Amamiya/Takahashi pair-up was  
pretty inspired. Amamiya has been involved in protests for freeter  
unions in the last year. There seems to be a big push to link freeters  
with the rhetoric of the pr?cariat, or the precarious + proletariat of  
the (sometimes) post-industrial world. I hear competing genealogies  
for that word, some Japanese, some French.

I think I started a discussion about the sh?setsu in the context of  
montage a year or so ago, which was rather lively. Chika Kinoshita and  
others had things to say about montage at that point in film history.  
But a lot has happened since then, as you point out.

In the interim there has been a big conference about Kobayashi at  
Oxford, which some of you may have been to. If so, do tell! There is a  
Sankei article (May 14) that I find interesting, because like the Wall  
Street Journal, they seem obliged to report on culture. http://sankei.jp.msn.com/culture/books/080514/bks0805140802000-n1.htm 
. Cool grafix, too. It tracks the publication history, the rise in  
printings, and notes that college-age readers feel an affinity with  
the "working poor" and the harping on "self-responsibility" (jiko  
sekinin) from various neo-liberal corners. They did not note the  
adaptation into cinema.

Given the "festering maggot" scene in Kani k?sen, and the general  
setting of the mutiny-ing ship, I think it is pretty evident that  
there is a Potemkin-ian link, over and above the narrative of  
revolution common to prole lit in general. The endings rhyme, if they  
are not exactly the same. Also, the presence of the benshi in the  
story is kind of interesting. Potemkin itself is pretty self-contained  
with subtitles, and the coercive editing of dialectical montage does  
not leave a WHOLE lot of room for interpretation, of the sort benshi  
would do. But, it is always possible there was leftist benshi  
technique that can improvise quite well with such material.

Interesting stuff.

Anne


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Anne McKnight
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) and  
Comparative Literature
University of Southern California
356P Taper Hall--3501 Trousdale Pkwy
Los Angeles, California 90089-0357
tel: 213-740-3706
mcknight at usc.edu



On Oct 14, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Mark Nornes wrote:
> Yamada Kazuo's still at it. The Eisenstein Cineclub has a curious  
> event coming up. Seems there is a Kani kosen boom going on? Really?
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> What caught my eye was the connection between the book and  
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On Oct 14, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Mark Nornes wrote:

> Yamada Kazuo's still at it. The Eisenstein Cineclub has a curious  
> event coming up. Seems there is a Kani kosen boom going on? Really?
>
> What caught my eye was the connection between the book and  
> Battleship Potemkin. Does anyone know about this? If anyone goes,  
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>
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