recent publications in english on Japanese film

[Mark R. Harris]

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On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>  Dear KineJapaners,
>
> I’m always grateful for people who announce their own or other people’s
> publications on this forum.  We haven’t had much mentioned of
> english-language publications of late, whilst I see that, alarmingly, my
> reading pile seems always to grow, despite my best efforts.  Here’s some
> recent ones that have come my way, in the belief that not everyone will have
> noticed all of them yet.  They come without any direct knowledge of them,
> unless stated.
>
> Roger
>
> *Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited*, RUSSELL, Catherine, 2011
>
> *Politics, Porn and Protest**: **Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s
> and 1970s*, STANDISH, Isolde, 2011, I bumped into a list-member who had
> the Sight and Sound review copy of this book, so I shall wait for that
> review.
>
> *Also, some books with some specific content on Japanese film :-*
>
> *Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Shuji Terayama**, *RIDGELY,
> Steven C., 2010.  Has, for instance, a 35 page chapter on *Den'en ni shisu
> *, 1974.
>
> *Rape in Art Cinema, *RUSSELL, Dominique, 2010, This is priced at .£60  Has
> a chapter 'Fault Lines of Vision: *Rashomon* and *The Man Who Left His
> Will on Film*, Eugenie BRINKEMA.  The essay does engage with previous
> critiques of these films.  I can’t remember how the editor justified the
> title but for Japanese films, at least, it’s hardly just ‘art films’ that
> are defined by rape.  But that’s another story….
>
> *World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism**, *NAGIB, Lúcia, 2011, Has
> chapters on ‘*The Realm of the Senses*, the Ethical Imperative and the
> Politics of Pleasure’ and ‘Hara and Kobayashi’s ‘Private Documentaries’ ‘.
>
> *When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade*, KEHR, Dave,
> U.of Chicago P., reviewed in S&S Sep11 with mention of Ozu, Mizoguchi and
> Naruse. Amazon mktplc £11
>
> Under 'Revivals and Retrospectives'  has reviews of :-
>
> Story of the Last [sic] Chrysanthemum, MIZOGUCHI
>
> Record of a Tenant Gentleman, OZU
>
> When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, NARUSE
>
> and under 'New Masters' :-
>
> Eijanaika, IMAMURA
>
> *Some Journal articles :-*
>
> * 'Fractured Landscapes: detection, location and history in Uchida Tomu's
> Kiga kaikyo / A Fugitive from the Past’*, PHILLIPS, Alastair, *Screen*Summer 2011 pp215--232.
>
> *‘Revisiting Kurosawa Akira’s The Idiot : A comparison with Sergei
> Eisenstein’*, by list-member Yuna De ALLOY* Journal of Japanese and Korean
> Cinema* 2:1, 2010 (There's also article on *Dersu Uzala *and *Okuribito *in
> that issue.)
>
> *‘Movie advertisements and the formation of a new visual environment in
> interwar Japan’*, FUJIKI, Hideaki, 2011 in *Japan Forum* 23:1.  One can
> consider, inter alia, whether  contemporary or more recent theories
> articulated around the new ‘figural aesthetics’ stood up to any empirical
> tests, and how some critics saw the ‘ubiquitous, distractive and ephemeral’
> culture as superficial.  Or you could just superficially admire the
> illustrations which are admirably reproduced.
>



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