recent publications in english on Japanese film

[Roger Macy]

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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