[KineJapan] Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema

[Eija Niskanen]

Markus: I would like to read your YIDFF piece.

Eija


2014-02-21 21:57 GMT+02:00 Markus Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu>:

> 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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