film on the faultline

[Eija Niskanen]

I am chairing a conference panel on the theme of depicting disaster in
visual and audiovisual arts at ACAH on 4/6-9 in Osaka. We are goiving
papers on 3/11 films (Niskanen), Kanto earthquake (Kawahara),
depiction of nuclear power in ATG films (Ushida). If any of these
seems appropriate, I am sure we would all be thrilled to provide
articles for your book.

Eija


2012/3/1 Alex Bates <alebates at gmail.com>:
> 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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