[KineJapan] Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema

[Markus Nornes]

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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