Self-Introduction

[Roger Macy]

Welcome, Amanda,
I expect you are aware of the film by LU Chuan, Nanjing, Nanjing! that I mentioned recently in a posting about the London Film Festival, but you might want to consider whether to include the new film by Florian GALLENBERGER, John Rabe.  I have a ticket for the screening in London on 3rd December.  Unfortunately the blurbs for that festival only give plot details without mentioning the filmmaking, but I know it has German, Japanese and Chinese actors, with dialogue in those languages and location shooting in Shanghai.  I suggest you contact the Goethe-Institut in Tokyo and ask them about a screening, which might interest some other list-members.
The extent to which depictions from various countries are screened, or not, in their 'other' is, of course, highly relevant to an international medium and industry.  I asked at the panel in Tokyo this year on Lust, Caution, what the reception history of that film was in Japan, but no one had an answer.
Unfortunately, the literature that I have seems to cover depictions prior to 2000, so I will look at other postings with interest.
best wishes,
Roger
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  From: AD Weiss 
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  Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:40 AM
  Subject: Self-Introduction


  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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