film on the faultline

[Alan Wright]

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 don¹t 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 year¹s 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 ... I¹d 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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