[KineJapan] Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema

[Daisuke Miyao]

Thank you for your kind posting, Markus.  Yes, I am sorry for the price 
of the book and I do not expect many of you will actually purchase it.  
But I sincerely hope that many of you will have a chance to read the 
essays in the volume at the libraries of your institutions or else.  
Because they are fantastic!  I'd like to extend my deepest gratitude to 
all the contributors.  Thank you!

Best,
Daisuke

Daisuke Miyao
Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Associate Professor of Japanese Film and Cinema Studies
University of Oregon

On 2014/02/21 11:57, Markus Nornes wrote:
> Daisuke Miyao's Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema is out, and it's an
> thick, impressive book. For me it gives a powerful sense for how rich
> Japanese film studies has become. Nearly twenty years ago, Mitsuhiro
> Yoshimoto and I sketched out a similar kind of handbook. We gave up
> because our ambitions looked like this book, but it was difficult to
> imagine who could write all the essays. Things have changed.
> 
> Unfortunately, the price tag of this book is astronomical--$150.
> Oxford basically has a strategy that gives up on individual readers
> and relies wholly on a predictable number of research library
> purchases. This is incredibly disheartening, you spend all that effort
> on a piece of writing that no one can actually hope to place on their
> bookshelf. I don't know. I may just stop participating on book
> projects with such outrageous pricing.
> 
> (So anyone who wants to read my piece--a critique of the international
> film festival circuit's Eurocentrism through a case study of the
> Yamagata festival--is welcome to contact me _off_list_. I'll gladly
> send you a pdf.)
> 
> Thanks for the book, Daisuke!
> 
> Markus
> 
> PS: The table of contents:
> 
> Introduction
>  PART 1: WHAT IS JAPANESE CINEMA STUDIES?: JAPANESE CINEMA AND CINEMA
> STUDIES
>  Chapter 1: Japanese Film Without Japan: Toward an Undisciplined Film
> Studies (Eric Cazdyn)
>  Chapter 2: Triangulating Japanese Film Style (Ben Singer)
>  Chapter 3: Critical Reception: Historical Conceptions of Japanese
> Film Criticism (Aaron Gerow)
>  Chapter 4: Creating the Audience: Cinema as Popular Recreation and
> Social Education in Modern Japan (Hideaki Fujiki)
>  PART 2: WHAT IS JAPANESE CINEMA?: JAPANESE CINEMA AND THE
> TRANSNATIONAL NETWORK
>  Chapter 5 Adaptation As "Transcultural Mimesis" (Michael Raine)
>  Chapter 6 The Edge of Montage: A Case of Modernism/Modanizumu in
> Japanese Cinema (Chika Kinoshita)
>  Chapter 7 Nationalizing Madame Butterfly: The Formation of Female
> Stars in Japanese Cinema (Daisuke Miyao)
>  Chapter 8 Performing Colonial Identity: Byeonsa, Colonial Film
> Spectatorship, and the Formation of National Cinema in Korea under
> Japanese Colonial Rule (Dong Hoon Kim)
>  Chapter 9 Outpost of Hybridity: Paramount's Campaign in Japan,
> 1952-1962 (Hiroshi Kitamura)
>  Chapter 10 Erasing China in Japan's "Hong Kong Films" (Kwai Cheung
> Lo)
>  Chapter 11 The Emergence of the Asian Film Festival: Cold War Asia
> and Japan's Re-entrance to the Regional Film Industry in the 1950s
> (Sang Joon Lee)
>  Chapter 12 Yamagata - Asia - Europe: International Film Festival
> Short-Circuit (Abé Mark Nornes)
>  PART 3: WHAT JAPANESE CINEMA IS!: JAPANESE CINEMA AND THE INTERMEDIAL
> PRACTICES
>  Chapter 13 Nitrate Film Production in Japan: a Historical Background
> of the Early Days (Okada Hidenori - Translated by Ayako Saito)
>  Chapter 14 Sketches of Silent Film Sound in Japan: Theatrical
> Functions of Ballyhoo, Orchestras and Kabuki Ensambles (Hosokawa
> Shuhei)
>  Chapter 15 The Jidaigeki Film Genre: Twilight Samurai and Its
> Contexts (Yamamoto Ichiro - Translated by Diane Wei Lewis)
>  Chapter 16 Occupation and Memory: the Representation of Woman's Body
> in Postwar Japanese Cinema (Ayako Saito)
>  Chapter 17 Cinema and Memory: Confabulated Memories, Nishijin (1961)
> (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano)
>  Chapter 18 By Other Hands: Environment and Apparatus in 1960s
> Intermedia (Myriam Sas)
>  Chapter 19 Viral Contagion in the Ringu Intertext (Carlos Rojas)
>  Chapter 20 Manga/Anime/Games (the Media Mix) and the Metaphoric
> Economy of World (Alexander Zahlten)
> 
> --
> 
>  MARKUS NORNES
> Chair, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures
>  Professor of Asian Cinema, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
> Professor, School of Art & Design
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