[KineJapan] Fw: Call for Papers: Kinema Club XIII - the long 1939

Fri Jul 5 08:53:07 EDT 2013

Dear KineJapaners,
I wonder whether anyone else would like to focus on the period before the outbreak of the Pacific War, under some umbrella such as 'Japan's exceptionally long 1939 - the transition from peace to war, reflected in film'.
Of course, our convenor may dismiss such a stretch-umbrella out of hand, but I would be interested in hearing from anyone working on this period off list.
Roger
macyroger at yahoo.co.uk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alex Zahlten 
To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum 
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 7:48 PM
Subject: [KineJapan] Call for Papers: Kinema Club XIII

Call for Papers for….

Kinema Club XIII

at Harvard University

Three Times +X. Transitional Moments in Film and Media History in Japan.

Dates: January 17, 2014

Reischauer Institute, Harvard University

Deadine for submissions: August 20, 2013

We welcome submissions for the 13th Kinema Club Conference on Film and Moving Images from Japan!

This Kinema Club will focus on three transitional moments in the history of film and media in Japan, centered around the years 1927, 1962, and 1995. Additionally, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Reischauer Institute, we will include the year 1973.

Panel proposals on additional years are also possible (though not individual papers), as are panels on questions of historiography in relation to research on film and moving images from Japan.

The concept is therefore somewhat different from previous Kinema Clubs. By focusing respective sessions on specific years, we will be able to recognize heterogeneous constellations. These can be what Harry Harootunian has (in reference to Ernst Bloch) called “noncontemporaneous contemporaneity“, or due to other factors of industry or audience segmentation. These constellations can include relations across different genres, distribution networks, or media platforms at a given historical moment. It will allow recognizing what we might call contradictory coherences of aesthetic, social, and political history.

For this we have selected three years that are often regarded, for different reasons, as transitional:

  a.. 1927 is the year that Komatsu Hiroshi sees as foundational for modernism in the cinema of Japan, strongly influenced by the 1923 earthquake in Kantô. 

  a.. 1962/3 is the time of the appearance of Pink Film and Ninkyô Yakuza film, and the production of the first anime, Tetsuwan Atomu / Astro Boy (even if the first broadcast took place on January 1, 1963). It the year after a large part of Shin Toho’s archives were sold to television, making Japanese films produced for the cinema available on TV for the first time. 

  a.. 1995 is often discussed as a year of crisis and rupture, deeply leaving its mark on moving image culture. After the burst of the bubble and the re-organization of the film industry, it is the year in which Neon Genesis Evangelion is broadcast. It is the time when Japanese film is re-”discovered” at international film festivals. 

and as a bonus option and due to the 40th anniversary, we include the year 1973, the year of the founding of the Reischauer Institute.

Panel submissions of at least three presenters that focus on additional years are also welcome!

Dates:

The conference will be held on January 16 at the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University. 

Submissions:

Please send abstracts of up to 200 words or any questions to: kinemaclub13 at gmail.com

Deadline for submissions is August 20, 2013. 

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