films on minorities in Japan

[Maria Jose Gonzalez]

Roger,
Chapter 1 is available here for your reference:
http://knowledge4empowerment.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/takezawa-2011_race-racial-representations.pdf

Also,on the topic of discrimination,Tadashi Imai's "Hashi No Nai Kawa",based on Sumii's novel of the same title and mentioned in this book, is of great interest.

Maria-Jose Gonzalez


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 From: Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk>
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
Sent: Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 20:19
Subject: Re: films on minorities in Japan
 

  
We haven't mentioned representations of the burakumin. Two 
films by Ichikawa Kon deal with this and others make allusions.  There are 
also misrepresentations, including Kyūjyūkyū-honme 
no kimusume, which conflates the burakumin with the 
Ainu.
We also had a long thread on representation on blackness, 
a couple of years ago.
 
But I have a question.  I was discussing Kyūjyūkyū-honme with Ian Neary last year, and he recommended the book 'Racial Representations in 
Asia'. Although this has now appeared in a number of US libraries, it still 
hasn't appeared in the UK.  The publishers don't have a contents list, only 
a very unhelpful blurb, and the author, Yasuko Takezawa has not responded to 
emails.
Can 
anyone point me to a contents list or review that I could put in front of a UK 
librarian, please ?
Roger
 
----- Original Message -----  
From: "Catherine Russell" <crus at alcor.concordia.ca>
To: "'Eija Niskanen'" <eija.niskanen at gmail.com>; 
<KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 4:37 PM
Subject: RE: films on minorities in 
Japan
Hi Eija,
There is 
also Naruse's film Whistling in Kotan, a.k.a A Whistle in My Heart (Kotan no 
kuchibue), 1959, about the Ainu. I don't know if it's easy to get 
though.
Katie


______________
Catherine Russell
Professor, 
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Editor, Canadian Journal of Film 
Studies
Concordia University, Montreal
http://cinema.concordia.ca/index.php/russell/
crus at alcor.concordia.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Eija Niskanen 
[mailto:eija.niskanen at gmail.com] 
Sent: February 4, 2012 4:50 AM
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: films on minorities in Japan

Dear all,

can you 
suggest some easy to get films (for ex. on DVD), either
documentaries or 
fiction films, on minorities in Japan. Especially
films on Ainu and Okinawans 
are sought. These are to be shown on a
Linguapax film series at 
IUC.

Thanks,

Eija

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Eija 
Niskanen
080-3479-8475
Kichijoji Honcho 4-12-6
Musashino-shi
Tokyo 
180-0004
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