Self-Introduction

[Nornes, Markus]

Hi Amanda and Welcome!

I'm curious how you chose 2000 as the starting point. Is it simply arbitrary?

I thought I'd mention one curious example. In 1991, for the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the start of the Pacific War, Fukushima Yukio and I co-programmed a pretty large event at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. The entire premise of the event was to focus on competing perspectives of these wars-US/Japan; frontline/homefront; Japan/China/US; airplane/epicenter; wartime/postwar; film/video, etc. etc. etc.  Each program was conceptualized around these kinds of dialogical structures. To some extent, the catalog was, too. There are both Japanese and English versions of the catalog (both benefiting from heavy editing after the rush of festival prep), but both version drop some of the original content. You can get a hold of the original catalog at the Tokyo Office of the festival.

Markus


On 11/21/09 4:40 AM, "AD Weiss" <amandadweiss at gmail.com> wrote:

Name:
Amanda Weiss

Institutional affiliation or job:
PhD candidate, University of Tokyo

City and country:
Tokyo, Japan

Research projects or publications:
Currently researching Sino-Japanese memory/representations of WWII, focusing on how Chinese and Japanese films post-2000 have represented the Japanese in China.

Interests with regard to Japanese film and moving image media:
I would like to hear about Japanese films--I am new to Japanese studies, having spent the majority of my research up until this point on Chinese cinema.
Any recommendations on books and recent (after 2000) Japanese films/TV shows related to Japanese in China (or even other Pacific countries) during WWII-era would be appreciated.
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