[KineJapan] Alan Booth's film criticism

[Markus Nornes]

Timothy, can you post the ISBN, etc, so it’s easy to forward to librarians?

Markus

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:37 AM Timothy Harris <tjgharris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am the editor of 'This Great Stage of Fools' ( brightwavemedia.com ) ,
> an anthology of shorter writings by Alan Booth, author of the very
> well-received 'The Roads to Sata' (Weatherhill & Penguin) and 'Looking for
> the Lost'' (Kodansha). The introduction is by myself, and there is an
> afterword by Karel van Wolferen. These shorter writings include well over
> 100 pages of the  reviews of Japanese film that Booth wrote for the Asahi
> Evening News between  1979 and 1990 (I was his editor). The reviews are
> very perceptive and beautifully written, and provide a very good account of
> what was happening in Japanese cinema in the decade 1979-1989. The
> remainder of the book is given over to pieces on Japanese festivals and
> folksongs, two long articles on the great Tsugaru shamisen player Takahashi
> Chikuzan and on a walk the length of Shikoku, and some final, and
> harrowingly funny essays on what it is like to die from cancer -- Booth
> died in 1993.
>
> The book contains some of Booth's best writing, and the film reviews are,
> by any standards, extraordinary in their perceptiveness and quality of
> judgement. Since I was his close friend, his editor for many years during
> his life, and editor of this book after his death, I am obviously
> prejudiced in his favour, but I should be very grateful for any advice from
> subscribers to kinejapan as to how it might be possible to get this book
> better known among those who are interested in Japanese cinema.
>
> Timothy Harris
>
>
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