[KineJapan] Self-promotion

[Mathieu Capel]

Dear Kinejapaners,

I don't know why it took me so long to post this e-mail, except some kind
of elementary reluctance for self-promotion.
I finally decided to go over it, and to indulge in this uneasy task, to let
you know about a book I published last October.
All apologies then, hoping that, nevertheless, people reading french around
here might be interested.

The book, called *Evasion du Japon* (*Escape from Japan*) after Yoshida
Kijû's 1964 film, was published by Les Prairies Ordinaires, as you may see
by cliking here :
http://www.lesprairiesordinaires.com/eacutevasion-japon.html

For those of you who cannot read french, let me say a few words of
explanation.

The opening finds Adachi & Wakamatsu, Imamura and Yoshida in the
mid-seventies, far from Japan, almost at the same time (Lebanon, Malaysia
and Egypt).
This coincidence has always be an enigma to me, for those three (or four)
filmmakers have very few in common. The book is an attempt then to
understand, from an aesthetical and historical point of view, how it
happened.

By the way, my point here was not to finally find what they posibly had in
common, but to describe as precisely as possible what were their
differencies.

To put in other words, I try to describe Japanese New Wave, in some kind of
twisted-Foucault-manner (blame it on french education, I guess), as a new
paradigm or discursive space I shall call High Growth Cinema, that was
structured by "opposite" tendancies, whose incarnation were, basically,
Adachi, Imamura, and Yoshida.

It might not be an overview of cinema in the sixties (despite its full
title), but tries to stick to era-defining films and filmmakers, discussing
Matsumoto,Nakai or Yoshida's cinema theories, then bumping into films by
Ichikawa, Yamada, Matsumoto,Teshigahara, Takechi, Kumai, Shinoda, Hani,
Kanai, etc. And, needless to say, Adachi, Wakamatsu, Imamura and Yoshida.

Sorry once more for this shameful self-promoting sequence, and thank you
all for your attention.

Mathieu Capel
Paris
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