film on the faultline

[Alex Bates]

Alan,
I'm polishing up a book manuscript on the 1923 Kanto Earthquake in 
literature and to a lesser extent, film. I'd be happy to contribute 
something on that quake and film. I'll write up an abstract and send it 
along.
-Alex Bates

East Asian Studies
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013
On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:09 PM, Alan Wright wrote:

>
>  I posted a message a few months back about a book I am editing, Cine 
> tectonica: Film on the Faultline.  I would like to invite 
> contributions from the community of scholars and critics who are 
> currently writing on Japanese cinema.  I am aware of a number of 
> films, documentaries as well as feature films, that have been made 
> since the earthquake and tsunami which struck last year on March 11, 
> but have no direct knowledge of them (A Sense of Home (Kawase et al), 
> Himizu (Sono Sion).  The deadline for abstracts (250 words) is March 
> 7th but please don’t hesitate to write if you wish to submit an essay. 
>  Jasper recommended a number of areas of possible interest and 
> inquiry:
>
> 1) The 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake  which had a major structural 
> impact on the early Japanese film industry, forcing the major 
> companies then in operation to move West temporarily and base 
> themselves in Kyoto.
>  2) Pre-tsunami disaster films like Japan Sinks (1973, remade in 
> 2006), or the post-Kobe earthquake J-horror movie Isola: The Multiple 
> Personality Girl (2000)
>  3) The sudden rush to produce documentaries about the Tohoku 3/11 
> Earthquake. There's been loads made already in Japan, each claiming to 
> be the first domestically produced documentary on the subject. There 
> was a focus on these at this year’s Yamagata International Documentary 
> Festival (apt, as Yamagata housed so many of the refugees from the 
> nearby affected Tohoku area).
>
>  There may also be other ways to respond to the traumatic subject of 
> the earthquake in Japanese culture and cinema ... I’d be very 
> interested in presenting a collective discussion from the kinejapan 
> list perhaps as part of the book.  This very forum might supply a 
> meaningful venue for commemorating the ongoing impact of the disaster 
> which befell so many on March 11, 2011.
>
>  Best wishes
>
>  Alan Wright
>
>
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