Book announcement

[Scott Nygren]

Congratulations, Aaron! This is great news --

Best,
Scott


Aaron Gerow wrote:
> Forgive the self promotion, but my new book has just been published  
> and is available through your local bookseller:
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> Aaron Gerow
> Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and  
> Spectatorship, 1895-1925
> University of California Press, 2010
> ISBN 978-0520254565
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> Here's the blurb:
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> "Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the  
> likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in  
> Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it  
> simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow explores the  
> processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during  
> its first three decades in Japan. He focuses in particular on how one  
> trend in criticism, the Pure Film Movement, changed not only the way  
> films were made, but also how they were conceived. Looking closely at  
> the work of critics, theorists, intellectuals, benshi artists,  
> educators, police, and censors, Gerow finds that this trend  
> established a way of thinking about cinema that would reign in Japan  
> for much of the twentieth century."
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> Some colleagues offered some kind words for the back cover, but I'm  
> too embarrassed to quote them here. The Press created a great cover,  
> which you can see on my website:
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> http://www.aarongerow.com/books/visions.html
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> There were a lot of people, especially on KineJapan, who helped with  
> this over the years and I would like to reiterate my thanks to them.
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> Aaron Gerow
> Associate Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
> 53 Wall Street, Room 316
> PO Box 208363
> New Haven, CT 06520-8363
> USA
> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
> Fax: 1-203-432-6764
> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
> site: www.aarongerow.com
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