From nornes at umich.edu Thu Aug 1 02:30:49 2019 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 15:30:49 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Papers=3A_Kinema_Club_XIX_in_A2?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9420_Years_On?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Actually, in the call I offered to find money to fly in two graduate students who could post to social media during the discussions, acting something like secretaries and creating a record we could put on the Kinema Club website. To my surprise, no one expressed interest! I'll have to think about Youtube. Many people dislike that and I hate to change the dynamic of discussions.....I speak from experience. Markus --- *Markus Nornes* *Professor of Asian Cinema* Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design *Department of Film, Television and Media* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. State Street* *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:02 AM jacline MORICEAU via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Dear All > > Like a lot of people who are be unable to join you I would be very pleased > to hear the complete talks. Mathieu Capel suggested youtube > Why not ? > > Best Regards > > Jacline Moriceau > > Le lun. 29 juil. 2019 ? 14:54, Caitlin Casiello via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit : > >> >> >> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:31 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan < >> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: >> >>> *Call for Proposals: Kinema Club XIX A2?20 Years On* >>> >>> >>> >>> *Place: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor* >>> >>> *Dates: November 1-3, 2019* >>> >>> *Deadline for Proposals: June 30, 2019* >>> >>> *Organizer: Markus Nornes *(nornes at umich.edu) >>> >>> >>> >>> In 1999, Kinema Club members met in Ann Arbor for their first gathering >>> to talk about how Japanese film studies developed, where it was, and where >>> we should aim for moving forward. This fall we will meet once again to take >>> stock of the field 20 years on and discuss our bright future. In the spirit >>> of the original Kinema Club, we will discuss our past precisely to forge a >>> collective path ahead. >>> >>> >>> >>> 1) Silence=Sound (Michael Raine & Daisuke Miyao) >>> >>> 2) Theories Histories (Aaron Gerow) >>> >>> 3) Media+ (Stephanie DeBoer & Yuki Nakayama) >>> >>> 4) Animating (Christine Marran & Tom Lamarre) >>> >>> 5) Imperium (Kate Taylor-Jones & Irhe Sohn) >>> >>> 6) Embodied ?Desired (Jennifer Coates & Sharon Hayashi) >>> >>> 7) Possible Futures?[and Pedagogies] (Alex Zahlten & Chika Kinoshita) >>> >>> 8) ??*Onward* (Anne McKnight & Markus Nornes) >>> >>> >>> >>> *XIX A2 will take a novel form based entirely on discussion.*There will >>> be no papers delivered. We invite *phantom papers, *proposals for >>> topics of discussion under the rubrics above and led by the listed >>> scholars. >>> >>> >>> >>> While there will be no presentations or speeches allowed; this Kinema >>> Club will be a precious opportunity for dialogue. The discussions will last >>> 90 minutes, will be consecutive and not simultaneous. They will be >>> kickstarted by free-format, pre-circulated position papers, *which**may >>> be listed on people?s CVs as any other conference paper.*These will be >>> collected three weeks before the gathering, and can be of any length. Two >>> weeks before, we will distribute the entire collection. At UM, discussions >>> will be led by the colleagues above, but everyone will freely participate. >>> Again, *no presentations allowed. * >>> >>> >>> >>> Additionally,*we are soliciting two graduate students*to act as social >>> media secretaries and blog the discussions as we go along. They will be >>> paid for their efforts. Contact Markus if you are interested in this role. >>> >>> >>> *Please send a proposal to Markus Nornes (nornes at umich.edu >>> ), with a position paper title and a short, one-paragraph >>> abstract that proposes a topic of discussion by June 30, 2019. * >>> >>> >>> >>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> >>> >>> >>> *Some historical background?* >>> >>> >>> >>> Younger scholars and students may not be aware of Kinema Club?s origin >>> story (a full version is on our website: >>> https://kinemaclub.org/about-us/history). We coalesced in the early >>> 1990s, mostly graduate students interested in Japanese cinema and vaguely >>> aware there were like-minded people out there. Somewhere. >>> >>> >>> >>> As we found each other, we shared some of the same practical problems, >>> starting with the paucity of bibliographic information on film. Our first >>> collaborative effort was to split up major film journals to copy and share >>> the tables of contents; new people could become ?members? by copying a new >>> journal and adding it to the packet. Eventually it was a couple inches >>> thick. >>> >>> >>> >>> Along the way, the Japanese bibliographer at OSU, Maureen Donovan, >>> encouraged us to go digital and exploit this new thing called the internet >>> to expand our collaboration. We gave ourselves the name Kinema Club?after a >>> Taisho era movie theater?and went online in January 1995. >>> >>> >>> >>> Four years later, we met in person at a workshop on the campus of >>> University of Michigan. The idea was to get together and talk about how >>> Japanese film studies came about. Ask what is *was.*And think about >>> where we might take it from there. This was all happening at an interesting >>> moment. Japanese film had been a space for the discipline of film studies >>> to work out many basic theoretical issues over the years, thanks to the >>> work of stellar scholars like No?l Burch, Stephen Heath, Dudley Andrew, >>> David Desser, Kristin Thompson, Maureen Turim, Robin Wood, Peter Lehman, >>> Dana Polan, Scott Nygren, Philip Rosen, David Bordwell, Paul Willemen, >>> Edward Branigan and others. Just as Kinema Club appeared as if by nature, >>> the discipline of film studies was pushing Japanese film to the margins >>> while Japanese studies, broadly construed, opened new spaces for it. >>> >>> >>> >>> Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto and Markus Nornes organized the first Kinema Club >>> workshop on this morphing disciplinary landscape to take stock of the >>> situation and chart a course into an unknown future. You can find the >>> original announcement and a summary of the meeting on the Kinema Club >>> website (https://kinemaclub.org/conference/kinema-club-workshop). After >>> the workshop was over, we concluded, >>> >>> >>> >>> We are, in a certain sense, ?euphoric.? We face multiple possibilities >>> and that?s good. We don?t mourn the passing of that old field and its sense >>> of institutional comfort. And despite the fact that it has left us groping >>> to comprehend the consequences for our lives as teachers, intellectuals and >>> as intellectual workers, we sense something very interesting on the horizon >>> in a decade or so. The senior scholars who have already done a lot of >>> research on Japanese film will be publishing the best work of their >>> careers. Many newly arriving people will have published books and secured >>> tenure. We will have read and engaged each other?s work. It will not >>> configure itself in a discipline, but we will have a much easier time >>> talking to each other. >>> >>> >>> >>> Twenty years after this first meeting, Kinema Club has gathered 18 times >>> and taken many different forms in just as many far-flung places. This fall, >>> let us gather again to look into the rear-view mirror as we barrel toward >>> KCXXXVI in 2039, 20 years on from now! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> KineJapan mailing list >>> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >>> >> -- >> Caitlin Casiello >> Ph.D. Student >> Film & Media Studies and East Asian Languages & Literatures >> Yale University >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Julianne Long JJ Translation ???: jlong at jjtranslation.com URL: www.jjtranslation.com From: KineJapan [mailto:kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Macy via KineJapan Sent: Wednesday, 31 July 2019 8:32 PM To: Markus Nornes via KineJapan Cc: Roger Macy Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Yamagata ? Aichi Just to say that, although I had got 6th August from the website as the last day for hotel reservations, when I printed out the form, it said today, 31st July. Matsumoto-san confirmed by email that it's not a package - you don't have to use the overnight bus. See some of you there, hopefully, Roger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Some of the events are listed here: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/tags/10490-walter-mangold I hope some of these might interest colleagues in Australia. Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and LiteraturesChair,?East Asian Languages and LiteraturesYale University143 Elm Street, Room 210 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail:?aaron.gerow at yale.eduwebsite: www.aarongerow.com _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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Some of the events are listed here: https://events.unimelb.edu.au/tags/10490-walter-mangold I hope some of these might interest colleagues in Australia. Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and LiteraturesChair,?East Asian Languages and LiteraturesYale University143 Elm Street, Room 210 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail:?aaron.gerow at yale.eduwebsite: www.aarongerow.com _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Untitled URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Sat Aug 3 00:19:46 2019 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 13:19:46 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Events at the University of Melbourne In-Reply-To: <975195978.637558.1564804241240@mail.yahoo.com> References: <975195978.637558.1564804241240@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Quentin, Unfortunately they are going to be keeping me quite busy, with an event pretty much every day, so there will be no time to go to Sydney. I also might not have time to go to the festival, but thanks for letting me know about it. Perhaps my wife will go and see something! Aaron > 2019/08/03 ??0:50?quentin turnour ????: > > Hi Aaron, > > You are not passing through Sydney are you? I can pass this on to Melbourne colleagues (and you'll be doing these during Melbourne's surprisingly large annual film festival, which might either help, or hinder getting a potential audience). 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URL: From bhartzheim at gmail.com Thu Aug 15 03:32:19 2019 From: bhartzheim at gmail.com (Bryan Hartzheim) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:32:19 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] CFP - Theorizing Anime: Invention of Concepts and Conditions of Their Possibility Message-ID: *Theorizing Anime: Invention of Concepts and Conditions of Their Possibility* An International Symposium, November 16 & 17, 2019 Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies Waseda University *CALL FOR PAPERS* The purpose of the international symposium ?Theorizing Anime: Invention of Concepts and Conditions of Their Possibility? is to reassess critically what anime studies has accomplished in and outside Japan since the beginning of the 2000s. The symposium attempts to explore the possibility of emerging new topics and methodologies by mainly focusing on the following three clusters of issues and ideas. First, we will reexamine various subfields and approaches in anime studies?including, for instance, textual analysis, reception and consumption, industrial analysis, historiography, anime?s medium specificity, and anime as a form of thought experiment (T. Elsaesser)?to clarify what has been accomplished so far and what remains to be done. Second, we will scrutinize the politics of anime studies discourse in a global context. Anime studies, which emerged contemporaneously in Japan and the global space of English-language academic discourse, now exists as a distinct field of intellectual inquiry. Even though they partially share similar concepts and historical paradigms, anime studies in the global academic space and Japan?s anime studies for the most part exist separately. The absence of active interaction with each other sometimes makes them appear as though they are two parallel?not necessarily equally valued?universes. While the English-language scholarship on anime tends to set itself up as a ?universal? standard by freely crossing national borders, anime studies in Japan often does not actively respond to the global enclosure of anime-related knowledge by the English-language scholarship. We will closely examine this peculiar relation of the ?global? and the ?local? in an attempt to search for a more dialogic model of transnational interaction and cooperation. Third, we will discuss the relationship between anime studies and various relevant disciplines. While having established itself as a distinct research field, anime studies is not (yet) an academic discipline. The possibility of anime studies is intimately linked to such disciplines and areas of research as media studies, film studies, visual studies, game studies, and literary studies. What can anime studies learn from these established disciplines? Conversely, what impact does anime studies have on them? We will address these questions not only from an institutional or theoretical perspective but also through concrete case studies. We invite papers that address any of the issues and topics above. We also welcome proposals that challenge the basic premises of the symposium directly or indirectly. Please send a paper title, an abstract of approximately 250 words, and a short bio to wasedanime at gmail.com by *September 25, 2019*. Organizers: Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (Waseda University) Bryan Hartzheim (Waseda University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 at 6:30 pm* *Note early start time. *THEY SAY NOTHING STAYS THE SAME (Aru Sendou no Hayashi)* Japan 2019 137 minutes Japanese with English subtitles Followed by a Q&A session with writer-director Joe Odagiri For more: https://tinyurl.com/yxnnm777 -- posted by Eija Niskanen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wct1 at columbia.edu Wed Aug 21 13:56:45 2019 From: wct1 at columbia.edu (William C. Thompson) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:56:45 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] New York 2019 Film Festival Message-ID: The New York Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 27 to Oct. 13 this year, has announced its main slate of films. Two Japanese features have been selected, Hiroshi Fukuda's *A Girl Missing *and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's *To the Ends of the Earth*. Three additional films from Asia will be included as well: Bong Joon-ho's *Parasite *(South Korea, already scheduled to open at the IFC Center shortly after the festival), Lou Ye's *Saturday Fiction *(China), and Diao Yinan's *The Wild Goose Lake *(China/France). Screening dates should be announced shortly. https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/guide/ Bill Thompson wct1 at columbia.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From komori at hamilton.edu Thu Aug 29 20:12:17 2019 From: komori at hamilton.edu (Kyoko Omori) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:12:17 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Sending Off premier in Tokyo References: Message-ID: Dear KineJapan members, (Someone else might have already posted the information ? If so, I apologize for the redundancy!) With the permission of the documentary filmmaker, Ian Thomas Ash, I provide below information about an upcoming event at the National Film Archive in Tokyo. Please contact Ian < documentingian at gmail.com > with any inquiries you may have. Best, Kyoko .................... Kyoko Omori Associate Professor of Japanese East Asian Languages and Literatures Department Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323, USA > > Documentary about death and dying in Japan to hold premier in Tokyo on September 7 > > The Japan Premier of the documentary???????Sending Off??, about an amazing home care doctor and her team of nurses in a small town in rural Japan, will be held on September 7 at 14:30, the opening day of the Pia Film Festival. Taking place at the National Film Archive of Japan in Kyobashi, Dr. Konta, the film's subject, and the film's director, Ian Thomas Ash, will be present to take part in a post-screening discussion. > > The documentary received the Nippon Docs Award (prize for best documentary) at the World Premier in Frankfurt's Nippon Connection Film Festival, the world's largest festival of Japanese film. More about the documentary is on the official website: http://www.sendingoffdoc.com/ > > The film will screen with English subtitles, and more information about the screening on September 7 is here (in Japanese): > https://pff.jp/41st/lineup/sugoi.html > > On Aug 13, the documentary and director Ian Thomas Ash were featured on NHK World's J-FLICKS, a program about the Japanese film industry. That episode is now available to watch for free On Demand until Aug 27 (WATCH ). > > > www.documentingian.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: SendingOff_FlyerV2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 364090 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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At the moment I was offered to be allowed to use it if I sign a letter of indemnity. My position is that we made every good faith effort to ask to Toho and they chose not to do so. The journal editor fears that since we used the agent for shochiku she has to examine the published version to make sure we complied and did not use any shochiku images we didn't pay for (we won't) - but in doing that she might see the partial image from Toho and report us. I don't want to cause the journal problems but I can't help being exasperated. Any advice would be welcome, even if it is only encouraging me to give it up. Thank you earl Earl Jackson Chair Professor Foreign Languages and Literatures Asia University Professor Emeritus National Chiao Tung University Associate Professor Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz Co-Director Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: