[KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 7, Issue 4

[Timothy Harris]

Dear Marcus,

Thank you for your response.

The full title is:

This Great Stage of Fools: An anthology of uncollected writings

by Alan Booth

edited by Timothy Harris, with an afterword by Karel van Wolferen.

Published by Bright Wave Media Inc, Yokohama
(connexion: books at brightwavemedia.com -- it can be ordered directly from
the publisher, as well as from amazon.com)

ISBN 978-0-9899163-1-8

Yours,
Timothy Harris

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 22:56, <kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

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> 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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> From: Markus Nornes <nornes at umich.edu>
> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Alan Booth's film criticism
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> Timothy, can you post the ISBN, etc, so it?s easy to forward to librarians?
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> Markus
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> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:37 AM Timothy Harris <tjgharris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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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> *Markus Nornes*
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> Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design
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