From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Tue Dec 3 10:10:13 2019 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 10:10:13 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Waseda Symposium on Nikkatsu Roman Poruno Message-ID: <947E72C0-60BD-40AB-A6D3-BFDFFAAF6F6D@yale.edu> There will be a symposium on Nikkatsu Roman Poruno at Waseda on December 14, 2019, focusing on perspectives from gender and queer studies. Speakers include Kubo Yutaka and Hwang Kyunmin. http://www.waseda.jp/prj-kyodo-enpaku/activity/2019_1214.html Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 143 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.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Sun Dec 8 21:28:48 2019 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 21:28:48 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Fwd: Genders and Sexualities in Asian Cinemas References: <5de8a30d.1c69fb81.c2b2b.e62dSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <0A39491A-C934-45A2-9516-03622CE95365@yale.edu> > Genders and Sexualities in Asian Cinemas > by Vincenz Serrano > Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce . The byline reflects the original authorship. > > > The circulation, commodification, and repression of discourses on genders and sexualities within and among Asian countries has been a constant feature of regimes of modernization, from colonial through neocolonial and postcolonial periods. Aptly enough, it is mainly through the modern vehicle of cinema where these discourses play out. Kritika Kulturawill be initiating a forum on the filmic representations of issues on genders and sexualities in the Southeast Asian region, in line with its commitment to the pursuit and development of cultural and media studies, slated for the journal?s February 2021 issue. > > The forum invites scholars of gender, media, and culture to formulate topics that inspect and submit to critical evaluation, instances where Asian film products embodied controversies on gender and/or sexuality, as either local or as cross-cultural phenomena. The approaches will be premised on sex-positive feminist representation, as first articulated in the March 1985 special section of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media by editors Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage (?Sexual Representation,? issue 30), and developed as well as debated by scholars and activists of feminisms, LGBTQ movements, and new masculinity studies. > > The forum seeks to respond to the following questions: How are Asian concepts of genders and sexualities configured vis-?-vis Western social, psychological, and sexological formulations? How were these ideas imaged in audiovisual media (technologies that were similarly foreign in origin)? Within specific national histories of political and developmental upheavals, what choices did producers, artists, and audiences make by way of acknowledging liberative and/or progressive ideals in the depiction of genders and sexualities? How did Asian cinemas seek to advance their filmic discourses of genders and sexualities in relation or in opposition to Western or regional influences? > > Coverage > > Possible topics may cover (but need not be limited to) the following: > > National, regional, and/or global sex film trends > The political economy of sex-film production > Porn vs erotica: censorship and the sex-themed film > Early stirrings: beginnings of sex-themed films in national film experiences > Figures of desire: the sirens and/or studs of sex films > Extraordinary passages: distribution circuits of film erotica > LGBTQ+ elements in film productions > Gender and/or sexuality as political masquerade in cinema > Perversion as transgression (or as containment) in film phenomena > Vanilla behavior, asexuality, self-pleasure, repression: desires as absences > Pain, pleasure, kinks, and consensualities in non-normative onscreen sex practice > Transgenderisms, transsexualities, genderqueerness, and identity controversies in film > Racialized (colonial or postcolonial) passions > Innovations in digital production and/or distribution of sex-themed cinema > Film trends on the imaging of queerness, femininities, masculinities, and/or non-binary sexualities > Othering the Other: the gaze of Westerners toward Asian sex films > The sexualization of Asians in Hollywood (or global) cinema > Submission Guidelines > > Paper proposals should be submitted electronically to the forum editor, Joel David, at joelsky2000 at yahoo.com (cc: kk.soh at ateneo.edu ), no later than February 29, 2020. Any contribution will be acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt. All communication should use "genders and sexualities" as subject heading. > > Proposals should consist of no longer than a two-page submission, comprising the following: title of the submission; name, affiliation, and short description of each author [up to a maximum of two authors per article]; three or four keywords (not mentioned in title or abstract) that describe the submission; contact information including mailing address, email address, and phone number; a single-paragraph paper proposal of up to 200 words; and a preliminary list of works to be cited (texts, websites, films/videos). Kindly note that audience or text (including big-data) survey studies may be considered, but the presence of theoretical engagement will be essential to the purposes of the journal. > > Authors whose proposals are accepted should finalize their articles (7,000 to 8,000 words including works cited, observing the eighth edition of the Modern Language Association handbook), on or before July 31, 2020. These articles will then undergo the standard process of double-blind peer review for academic journals. For further inquiries on matters not mentioned in this CFP or on the journal website, please contact the forum editor and Kritika Kultura(joelsky2000 at yahoo.com and kk.soh at ateneo.edu ; subject heading: genders and sexualities). > > About Kritika Kultura > > Kritika Kultura is acknowledged by a host of Asian and Asian American Studies libraries and scholarly networks, and indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Clarivate), Scopus, EBSCO, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP). For inquiries about submission guidelines and future events, visit http://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk or email kk.soh at ateneo.edu . > > Contact Info: > Vincenz Serrano > > Editor > > Kritika Kultura > > Department of English > > Ateneo de Manila University > > Contact Email: > kk.soh at ateneo.edu > URL: > https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mollydes at upenn.edu Tue Dec 10 15:33:15 2019 From: mollydes at upenn.edu (Des Jardin, Molly C) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:33:15 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Information about 2009 documentary on Nanjing Massacre Message-ID: Good afternoon all, I came across mention of the below documentary a few months ago and have been trying to follow up on it, on and off, to see if there is any practical way someone can get ahold of it outside Japan (or even inside Japan!). I don't buy a lot of film for our collection to begin with at Penn, so I'm not the most skilled at combing the internet to find DVDs anyway -- but I do know from what little I've bought that finding niche or documentary films from Japan or Korea can often be an exercise in frustration. Does anyone know if this was released in a commercial format that might still be available, even used (I do sometimes buy from eBay and Yahoo Auctions for example)? ?? ???????? (seems to have the English title Torn Memories of Nanjing) https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC_%E5%BC%95%E3%81%8D%E8%A3%82%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E8%A8%98%E6%86%B6 I see that Matsuoka Tamaki, who made the documentary, also wrote a book that has been translated into English with the same title (except as "Nanking") which makes it even less straightforward to sift through my search results. Thank you in advance for any info or advice! I'm not going to kill myself over trying to track it down, but it certainly looks interesting and like a worthwhile addition to our collection if at all possible. And, it is not in WorldCat as far as I can tell. Molly Dr. Molly C. Des Jardin (she/her) Japanese Studies Librarian University of Pennsylvania 527 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 mollydes at upenn.edu https://hcommons.org/members/mdesjardin/ (215) 898-3205 From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Wed Dec 11 19:41:51 2019 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:41:51 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Umemiya Tatsuya Message-ID: The actor Umemiya Tatsuya died on the 12th at the age of 81. Born in Manchuria, he debuted at Toei in 1958 and starred in the Shonen Tanteidan series, based on Edogawa Ranpo?s stories. He appeared in many gangster and ninkyo films in the 1960s, including the Furyo Bancho series. Those abroad probably remember him for his roles in Fukasaku Kinji's Battles without Honor and Humanity series and other jitsuryoku yakuza films. He also appeared in many TV dramas, hosted his own food show, and was a regular on variety shows. R.I.P. https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2019/12/12/kiji/20191212s00041000138000c.html Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 143 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.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk Fri Dec 13 15:35:55 2019 From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:35:55 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] More problems for Shusenjo In-Reply-To: References: <7EAEA4F3-7AB0-425E-8B2A-318CD8B627E1@uky.edu> <1498128152.4259559.1572484282705@mail.yahoo.com> <1097185188.4339927.1572506919778@mail.yahoo.com> <1747800295 .1414603.1572821254137@mail.yahoo.com> <0F66402C-AE5B-4F84-934B-EAEC8AC0F1F3@yale.edu> <1661859520.1613608.1573057106637@mail.yahoo.com> <2E156DDB-9B41-42E9-AD17-406EF4281C37@yale.edu> Message-ID: <361104713.23493855.1576269355459@mail.yahoo.com> Japan Forum has a recent podcast from Miki Dezaki. The latter parts have updates on recent developments in Europe and Japan.https://soundcloud.com/soas-university-of-london/japan-forum-podcast-2-with-miki-dezaki-director-of-shusenjo-the-main-battleground-of-comfort-women?in=soas-university-of-london/sets/japan-forum Roger On Saturday, 9 November 2019, 05:39:02 GMT, Markus Nornes via KineJapan wrote: It has a Youtube aesthetic, but it is mixed with TV doc?s commitment to balancing and polarizing points of view...modified at the end with a critical stance. This quirkiness helps explain why we aren?t seeing it play the international film festival circuit. M On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:28 PM John Junkerman via KineJapan wrote: "Lost its basis for existence." What a truly horrifying expression. When I heard that, I asked the distributors. Their position is that Sophia's policy is meant to protect privacy, and that it's a stretch to apply the withdrawal right to this case.? I second Marcus's opinion that it's good to air the denialist position. In Shusenjo, they basically crucify themselves, which is probably the real reason they're going after the film. But the right feels they are generally not given the chance to state their case, so they should be happy they had the opportunity.? If you have a chance to see the film, you'll see that Dezaki comes from the YouTube realm (rather than TV documentary). He did a previous YouTube post on discrimination?in Japan that got serious flaming, and he says this sparked his interest in exploring this territory.? BTW, Dezaki says the film has had 75,000 admissions in Japan screenings (and a wide release in Korea). The more it gets attacked, the more it will be seen. On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 2:24 AM Bruce Baird via KineJapan wrote: This does raise thorny issues about IRB approval the extent to which the subjects of research should be allowed to dictate the content of that research. Because if Sophia?s IRB approval process is anything at all like the one at my university, it is probably true that Sophia?s own IRB approval process allows people to opt out of being part of a study at any time. Although I would be interested to know if the IRB process says anything about the right to opt out _after_ publication. Bruce On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Markus Nornes via KineJapan wrote: It is deadly ironic that this is perhaps the first documentary to really allow them to lay out their case. Being new to documentary, Dezaki largely followed the convention of tv documentary balance so he did a fairly careful job of describing the positions of both sides. They say he presented his project as balanced and ?middle of the road,? and I don?t doubt it. ? TV journalism?s ideology of balance also informs the uyoku?s conception of nonfiction (and their own YouTube shows often follow tv wide show formats), so their real problem is that Dezaki shifts gears halfway though, analyzes the right wing arguments, finds them wanting. That is what annoys them. Personally, I was happy to have the chance to hear them explain themselves.? M On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 11:52 AM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan wrote: The rightwing battle against Shusenjo is escalating. Not only is one rightwinger asking for criminal charges to be filed (for copyright infingement), but the rightwingers who appeared in the film are trying to take advantage of Sophia University's research guidelines. According to the article, the eight participants originally signed a "research cooperation agreement" provided by Sophia, which was the process the director Dezaki followed since the film was made when he was still a student at Sophia. Now they plan to file a form withdrawing from that cooperation agreement. The article says that in such cases, by its own rules Sophia is obliged to destroy the results of such research cooperation. The rightwinger Fujioka Nobukatsu says in the article: "By Sophia's own regulations, Shusenjo has lost its basis for existence and become something that should not exist in this world.?? https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/TokyoSports_1610712 _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -- ---? Markus NornesProfessor of Asian CinemaDepartment of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps?School of Art & Design Department of Film, Television and Media6348 North Quad105 S. State StreetAnn Arbor, MI 48109-1285 _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan Bruce Baird Associate Professor East Asian Languages and Cultures University of Massachusetts Amherst But?, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History 439 Herter Hall 161 Presidents Drive University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-9312 Phone: 413-577-2117 Fax: 413-545-3178 baird at umass.edu Recently Released:?The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Butoh-Performance/Baird-Candelario/p/book/9781138691094 Now out in paperback and e-book:?Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230120402 _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -- John Junkermanjtj53213 at gmail.com2-18-6 Ehara-cho, NakanoTokyo 165-0023_______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -- ---? 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Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 143 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.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmiyao at ucsd.edu Sat Dec 14 13:44:37 2019 From: dmiyao at ucsd.edu (Miyao, Daisuke) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 18:44:37 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Thinking again about Japanese film theory In-Reply-To: <487577B9-09DA-435A-977E-31475F71B154@yale.edu> References: <487577B9-09DA-435A-977E-31475F71B154@yale.edu> Message-ID: Thank you for publicizing my essay as well, Aaron. Here is the link to mine: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7DTXT6FWJZCFBANMTBER/full?target=10.1080/17564905.2019.1661955 [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/cover-img/10.1080/17564905.2019.1661955] How can we talk about ?transnational? when we talk about Japanese cinema? (2019). How can we talk about ?transnational? when we talk about Japanese cinema? Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 109-116. www.tandfonline.com Best, Daisuke Daisuke Miyao Professor and the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature Director of the Japanese Studies Program Director of Doctoral Studies, Department of Literature University of California, San Diego ________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of Gerow Aaron via KineJapan Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2019 9:40 AM To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Cc: Gerow Aaron Subject: [KineJapan] Thinking again about Japanese film theory Sorry for the self-promotion, but I just updated my blog with an entry about my recent opinion piece in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema about the state of research on Japanese film theory. http://www.aarongerow.com/news/continuing-to-theorize-the.html Taylor and Francis lets me share the article for free to up 50 people who use the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EY7SVGPGIVWWXFCJUBDU/full?target=10.1080/17564905.2019.1661957 Thanks to Michael Raine for the invitation to write. Daisuke Miyao also has a piece on the issue on studying Japanese through a transnational lens. Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 143 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.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Sat Dec 14 19:48:25 2019 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:48:25 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Matsue Apologizes for Dotei o Produce....sort of Message-ID: I've been working on a third book about Japanese documentary, this time focussed on ethics and the post-Ogawa era. So naturally, I've been carefully tracking the Matsue-Kaga controversy over their film Dotei o Produce (2007, I believe). This whole thing erupted very publicly when Kaga took the opportunity to turn a butai aisatsu for the film into a carnivalesque critique of Matsue's unethical behavior on the set and afterwards (I'll be it is still on youtube if you didn't catch it before. Matsue and his producer just issued apologies over the whole thing. http://spotted.jp/2019/12/13_message/ That's an upright and long-overdue thing to do. However, I have to say this apology is remarkably vague. It's completely unclear what Matsue is apologizing for. The issue is complicated, when you get right down to it this is about power harassment. Indeed, if the film is significant at all, it's for showing how naturalized power harassment is in the film world in Japan. It's rather incredible Matsue was happily putting his bad behavior on display, so something tells me he's now apologizing for the wrong thing. 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* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Sat Dec 14 20:46:12 2019 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 20:46:12 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Great Hara Kazuo story Message-ID: Dennis Doros, the legendary distributor (Milestone), tells a great story about his first encounter with Hara Kazuo?just now from Facebook. M I'm so glad that The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On is on blu-ray. It's one of my favorite films of all time and one I acquired for Kino back in 1987. I want to tell a story and I'm linking it to the director on FB so if I'm repeating a tall tale, he can chastise me. It's also the first time he's hearing this story of our meeting. Back in 1987 I was desperate to acquire the film and my boss Don Krim said if I can get it cheaply, we could do it. My friend at the Japan Society, Dr. Kyoko Hirano, really wanted me to meet Mr. Hara who was coming to town to present the film. So Dr. Hirano met me and we were walking to the Algonquin Hotel to meet him. And she tells me a story about Kei Kumai's THE SEA AND THE POISON. Mr. Hara was Mr. Kumai's assistant on the film. For one of the scenes, she tells me, they had real trouble making the blood look real. They tried all the usual suspects but it just wasn't working for Mr. Kumai. They leave for the evening and the next day, Mr. Hara comes in with a large plastic bag and suggests they try using this substance. They do the scene and the substance looks just like the real thing and Mr. Hara has saved the scene. Mr. Kumai thanks him. Mr. Hara responds, "Thank you, it's mine." Just as Dr. Hirano finishes the story as we reach the hotel lobby, the elevator rings and Mr. Hara gets out of the elevator. Even though I was 30 years old, I was still very innocent and totally freaked out. However, Mr. Hara proved to be one of the nicest people I've ever met in film and I absolutely LOVED distributing his magnificent film. --- *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* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pslarson2 at gmail.com Sat Dec 14 23:21:39 2019 From: pslarson2 at gmail.com (Peter Larson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 23:21:39 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Great Hara Kazuo story In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Brilliant! 2019?12?14?(?) ??8:46 Markus Nornes via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>: > Dennis Doros, the legendary distributor (Milestone), tells a great story > about his first encounter with Hara Kazuo?just now from Facebook. > > M > > I'm so glad that The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On is on blu-ray. It's > one of my favorite films of all time and one I acquired for Kino back in > 1987. I want to tell a story and I'm linking it to the director on FB so if > I'm repeating a tall tale, he can chastise me. It's also the first time > he's hearing this story of our meeting. Back in 1987 I was desperate to > acquire the film and my boss Don Krim said if I can get it cheaply, we > could do it. My friend at the Japan Society, Dr. Kyoko Hirano, really > wanted me to meet Mr. Hara > who > was coming to town to present the film. So Dr. Hirano met me and we were > walking to the Algonquin Hotel to meet him. And she tells me a story about > Kei Kumai's THE SEA AND THE POISON. Mr. Hara was Mr. Kumai's assistant on > the film. For one of the scenes, she tells me, they had real trouble making > the blood look real. They tried all the usual suspects but it just wasn't > working for Mr. Kumai. They leave for the evening and the next day, Mr. > Hara comes in with a large plastic bag and suggests they try using this > substance. They do the scene and the substance looks just like the real > thing and Mr. Hara has saved the scene. Mr. Kumai thanks him. Mr. Hara > responds, "Thank you, it's mine." Just as Dr. Hirano finishes the story as > we reach the hotel lobby, the elevator rings and Mr. Hara gets out of the > elevator. Even though I was 30 years old, I was still very innocent and > totally freaked out. However, Mr. Hara proved to be one of the nicest > people I've ever met in film and I absolutely LOVED distributing his > magnificent film. > > > --- > > *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* > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raine.michael.j at gmail.com Sun Dec 15 17:51:08 2019 From: raine.michael.j at gmail.com (Michael Raine) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:51:08 -0600 Subject: [KineJapan] Thinking again about Japanese film theory In-Reply-To: References: <487577B9-09DA-435A-977E-31475F71B154@yale.edu> Message-ID: Thank you for mentioning these discussion pieces, Aaron and Daisuke. I think we're publishing articles that would be of wide interest to students and researchers of Japanese Cinema so if you are in a position to recommend a subscription to your library I would be very grateful. Information on subscription is here: www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rjkc We're open to publishing more of these short papers so if anyone would like to start a discussion about any aspect of the field I'd be happy to receive a proposal from you. Instructions for authors can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjkc20 Please think of us if you're interested in publishing regular articles too. The paper version of Volume 11 is now out so I've listed the articles below: Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema v. 11 Issue 1 Regular Articles In another time and place: The Handmaiden as an adaptation / Chi-Yun Shin The ?Queen of SM? is Born: the star image of Tani Naomi in Nikkatsu Roman Porno / Mio Hatokai Special Section: Japanese Cinema after Fukushima Introduction: Japanese cinema in the wake of Fukushima / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano Articles What animals, women, children, and foreigners can tell us about Fukushima / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano Still Grieving: mobility and absence in post-3/11 mourning films / Yutaka Kubo The Ethics of Japanese Social Documentary in the Wake of 3/11 / M. Downing Roberts Rewilding futures: Japan?s nuclear exclusion zone and post 3.11 eco-cinema / Daniel O?Neill Issue 2 Special Section: New Approaches to Japanese Cinema Introduction / Michael Raine Articles Theorizing the theory complex in Japanese film studies / Aaron Gerow How can we talk about ?transnational? when we talk about Japanese cinema? / Daisuke Miyao Regular Article Struggles over foreign films and film culture in wartime colonial Seoul (1937?1941) / Hwajin Lee Special Section: Struggling at the Margins of Society: Refugees, Mothers and Children in Korean Film Introduction / Barbara Wall Articles In Liberation Village: the production of cinematic space for early North Korean refugees / Pil Ho Kim The Korean mother in contemporary thriller films: a Monster or just modern? / Ji-yoon An Questioning ethical possibility: thigh slicing as ritual for the initiation of compassion and filial piety in Kim Ki-duk?s Piet? (2012) / Barbara Wall and Claus Nygaard Petersen Translation Discourse on Joseon cinema I (Chunchu 2, no. 11, November 1941) Im Hwa Michael Raine, Associate Professor in English and Writing Studies Western University, Canada co-editor, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 12:44 PM Miyao, Daisuke via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Thank you for publicizing my essay as well, Aaron. Here is the link to > mine: > > > https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7DTXT6FWJZCFBANMTBER/full?target=10.1080/17564905.2019.1661955 > > > > How can we talk about ?transnational? when we talk about Japanese cinema? > > (2019). How can we talk about ?transnational? when we talk about Japanese > cinema? Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 109-116. > www.tandfonline.com > Best, > Daisuke > > Daisuke Miyao > Professor and the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature > Director of the Japanese Studies Program > Director of Doctoral Studies, Department of Literature > University of California, San Diego > > ------------------------------ > *From:* KineJapan on behalf of Gerow > Aaron via KineJapan > *Sent:* Saturday, December 14, 2019 9:40 AM > *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > *Cc:* Gerow Aaron > *Subject:* [KineJapan] Thinking again about Japanese film theory > > Sorry for the self-promotion, but I just updated my blog with an entry > about my recent opinion piece in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema > about the state of research on Japanese film theory. > > http://www.aarongerow.com/news/continuing-to-theorize-the.html > > Taylor and Francis lets me share the article for free to up 50 people who > use the following link: > > > https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EY7SVGPGIVWWXFCJUBDU/full?target=10.1080/17564905.2019.1661957 > > > Thanks to Michael Raine for the invitation to write. 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URL: From nornes at umich.edu Mon Dec 16 10:14:31 2019 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:14:31 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is an amazing retrospective with, count ?em, 42 programs. The programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a through line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very interesting. One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the canonical directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular or best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. It feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the writing of film history at a fundamental level. In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended, especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary festivals in Japan. Markus On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Dear all, > > Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will hold a > program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar Japanese > Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also a chance > to see some rarely screened works: > > https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2 > > Regards > > Matteo Boscarol > Asian Docs > - Documentary in Japan and Asia > http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com > - Film writer for Il Manifesto > http://ilmanifesto.it > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -- --- *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* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Mon Dec 16 19:59:50 2019 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 19:59:50 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Matsubayashi documentary Message-ID: Matsubayashi Yoju?s documentary on the internment of Japanese Brazilians by Brazil during WWII is now viewable on NHK World until December 28th. The narration and subtitles are in English. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3016057 Matsubayashi is most known for his documentaries on Fukushima. My wife?s company handles two of those: https://www.zakkafilms.com/directors/yoju-matsubayashi/ But he has often shot works abroad, including Flowers and Troops, which was shot in Thailand. Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University 143 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.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Tue Dec 24 16:38:33 2019 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 14:38:33 -0700 Subject: [KineJapan] Obayashi documentary Message-ID: NHK World has a short documentary on Obayashi. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3004584/ As with all their stuff, it?ll disappeared after a couple weeks. M -- --- *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. 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Linda Ehrlich linda.ehrlich at gmail.com braidednarrative.com > On Dec 24, 2019, at 4:38 PM, Markus Nornes via KineJapan wrote: > > NHK World has a short documentary on Obayashi. > > https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3004584/ > As with all their stuff, it?ll disappeared after a couple weeks. > > M > -- > --- > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk Thu Dec 26 17:16:50 2019 From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 22:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Matsubayashi documentary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1334306114.6298193.1577398610828@mail.yahoo.com> Thank you for this, Aaron. It?s a story that needs telling. I?m curious about two language aspects of the film. There?s no reason whyyou should have the answers but I?ll express my curiosity. The first relates to its making. Has the film had a prior life as aJapanese-language doc.? There doesn?t seem to be anything very recent onMatsubayashi?s ja-wiki page, or on KineNote. Is there anywhere else I can look? The credits in english contain only Japanese names, apart for the englishvoice of the Welsh actor, Michael Rhys. Who wrote the english narration we arehearing ? The second relates to the content. The eighty-something survivors of theforced migration all speak in portuguese. The following generations ofJapanese-Brazilians generally speak japanese. I?d love to know whether this iselective and in what language(s) is the delivery in the ?Japanese schools that they refer to. Roger On Tuesday, 17 December 2019, 01:00:03 GMT, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan wrote: Matsubayashi Yoju?s documentary on the internment of Japanese Brazilians by Brazil during WWII is now viewable on NHK World until December 28th. The narration and subtitles are in English.? https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3016057 Matsubayashi is most known for his documentaries on Fukushima. My wife?s company handles two of those: https://www.zakkafilms.com/directors/yoju-matsubayashi/ But he has often shot works abroad, including?Flowers and Troops, which was shot in Thailand. 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: From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk Thu Dec 26 18:03:05 2019 From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 23:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1360495932.6280219.1577401385128@mail.yahoo.com> Thanks, Matteo and Markus. I only wish I could get to some of these. With regard to non-canonical programming, I was particularly intrigued tosee that, for Tsuchimoto, they?d chosen his Siberian film, ????????, atprog. 16. The Courtisane book from last year. ?Of Sea and Soil? had Tsuchimoto?sessay ?Can I Eat, Die and Love There?? about his travails in making it.It sounded from that like a lost film but now I get it, thanks to the excellentYIDFF archive ? this was reprinted from the their ?93 catalogue where it wasgetting its first outing since the making. Another thing that is still canonical, however, is Ogawa?s birth year,which is still listed as 1935, despite your best efforts, Markus. Roger On Monday, 16 December 2019, 15:14:48 GMT, Markus Nornes via KineJapan wrote: This is an amazing retrospective ?with, count ?em, 42 programs. The programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a through line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very interesting. One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the canonical directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular or best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. It feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the writing of film history at a fundamental level. ?In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended, especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary festivals in Japan.? Markus On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan wrote: Dear all,? Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will hold a program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also a chance to see some rarely screened works:? https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2 Regards Matteo BoscarolAsian Docs- Documentary in Japan and Asiahttp://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com- Film writer for Il Manifestohttp://ilmanifesto.it _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -- ---? Markus NornesProfessor of Asian CinemaDepartment of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps?School of Art & Design Department of Film, Television and Media6348 North Quad105 S. State StreetAnn Arbor, MI 48109-1285 _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From earljac at gmail.com Thu Dec 26 19:35:05 2019 From: earljac at gmail.com (Earl Jackson) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 08:35:05 +0800 Subject: [KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Markus, Aaron and the many people who know more about documentaries than I do, The documentary retrospective looks fascinating. Could I ask for recommendations - which should I absolutely not miss- I will be in Tokyo from 1/26 to 2/09. I will really appreciate this. ;-) thank you best ej 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 On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:14 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > This is an amazing retrospective with, count ?em, 42 programs. The > programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is > sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a through > line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very interesting. > One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the canonical > directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular or > best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. It > feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the > writing of film history at a fundamental level. > > In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is > well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended, > especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary > festivals in Japan. > > Markus > > > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will hold a >> program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar Japanese >> Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also a chance >> to see some rarely screened works: >> >> https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2 >> >> Regards >> >> Matteo Boscarol >> Asian Docs >> - Documentary in Japan and Asia >> http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com >> - Film writer for Il Manifesto >> http://ilmanifesto.it >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> > -- > --- > > *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* > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Fri Dec 27 01:17:34 2019 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 23:17:34 -0700 Subject: [KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Earl, Here are a few recommendations: 15 I?m dying to see the first two. ?????? is a must see?the 35mm PR film at its apex. 18 Higashi?s Okinawa film. 22 If you haven?t seen Matsumoto?s early short docs. 24 ????? ??? Probably the most important ethnographic film in Japan (it?s this or Himeda?s wedding film). Director Himeda was at the center of anthropological doc in the postwar. Warning: it?s fairly conventional with an emphasis on process, so you might be disappointed. 29 NDU ??????? BTW, YIDFF has a great catalog connected to this outfit. There you go. M On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 5:36 PM Earl Jackson via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Dear Markus, Aaron and the many people who know more about documentaries > than I do, > The documentary retrospective looks fascinating. Could I ask for > recommendations - which should I absolutely not miss- I will be in Tokyo > from 1/26 to 2/09. I will really appreciate this. ;-) > thank you > best > ej > 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 > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:14 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> This is an amazing retrospective with, count ?em, 42 programs. The >> programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is >> sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a through >> line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very interesting. >> One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the canonical >> directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular or >> best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. It >> feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the >> writing of film history at a fundamental level. >> >> In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is >> well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended, >> especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary >> festivals in Japan. >> >> Markus >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan < >> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will hold >>> a program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar Japanese >>> Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also a chance >>> to see some rarely screened works: >>> >>> https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2 >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Matteo Boscarol >>> Asian Docs >>> - Documentary in Japan and Asia >>> http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com >>> - Film writer for Il Manifesto >>> http://ilmanifesto.it >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> KineJapan mailing list >>> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >>> >> -- >> --- >> >> *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* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- --- *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* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matteo.boscarol at gmail.com Fri Dec 27 01:56:37 2019 From: matteo.boscarol at gmail.com (matteo boscarol) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:56:37 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <48CC1208-B35F-4E93-AD09-C7CFE0CB1F44@gmail.com> I would also add ????????? (1969) and ??????? ?????? (1973) by Kitamura Minao? Matteo Boscarol Asian Docs - Documentary in Japan and Asia http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com - Film writer for Il Manifesto http://ilmanifesto.it > On Dec 27, 2019, at 15:17, Markus Nornes via KineJapan wrote: > > ? > Dear Earl, > > Here are a few recommendations: > > 15 > I?m dying to see the first two. ?????? is a must see?the 35mm PR film at its apex. > > 18 > Higashi?s Okinawa film. > > 22 > If you haven?t seen Matsumoto?s early short docs. > > 24 > ????????? > Probably the most important ethnographic film in Japan (it?s this or Himeda?s wedding film). Director Himeda was at the center of anthropological doc in the postwar. Warning: it?s fairly conventional with an emphasis on process, so you might be disappointed. > > 29 NDU > ??????? > BTW, YIDFF has a great catalog connected to this outfit. > > There you go. > > M > > > > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 5:36 PM Earl Jackson via KineJapan wrote: >> Dear Markus, Aaron and the many people who know more about documentaries than I do, >> The documentary retrospective looks fascinating. Could I ask for recommendations - which should I absolutely not miss- I will be in Tokyo from 1/26 to 2/09. I will really appreciate this. ;-) >> thank you >> best >> ej >> 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 >> >> >>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:14 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan wrote: >>> This is an amazing retrospective with, count ?em, 42 programs. The programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a through line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very interesting. One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the canonical directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular or best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. It feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the writing of film history at a fundamental level. >>> >>> In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended, especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary festivals in Japan. >>> >>> Markus >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan wrote: >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will hold a program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also a chance to see some rarely screened works: >>>> >>>> https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2 >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Matteo Boscarol >>>> Asian Docs >>>> - Documentary in Japan and Asia >>>> http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com >>>> - Film writer for Il Manifesto >>>> http://ilmanifesto.it >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> KineJapan mailing list >>>> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >>>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >>> -- >>> --- >>> >>> 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. 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(1973) by Kitamura > Minao? > > Matteo Boscarol > Asian Docs > - Documentary in Japan and Asia > http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com > - Film writer for Il Manifesto > http://ilmanifesto.it > > > On Dec 27, 2019, at 15:17, Markus Nornes via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > ? > Dear Earl, > > Here are a few recommendations: > > 15 > I?m dying to see the first two. ?????? is a must see?the 35mm PR film at > its apex. > > 18 > Higashi?s Okinawa film. > > 22 > If you haven?t seen Matsumoto?s early short docs. > > 24 > ????? ??? > Probably the most important ethnographic film in Japan (it?s this or > Himeda?s wedding film). Director Himeda was at the center of > anthropological doc in the postwar. Warning: it?s fairly conventional with > an emphasis on process, so you might be disappointed. > > 29 NDU > ??????? > BTW, YIDFF has a great catalog connected to this outfit. > > There you go. > > M > > > > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 5:36 PM Earl Jackson via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> Dear Markus, Aaron and the many people who know more about documentaries >> than I do, >> The documentary retrospective looks fascinating. Could I ask for >> recommendations - which should I absolutely not miss- I will be in Tokyo >> from 1/26 to 2/09. I will really appreciate this. ;-) >> thank you >> best >> ej >> 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 >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:14 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan < >> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: >> >>> This is an amazing retrospective with, count ?em, 42 programs. The >>> programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is >>> sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a through >>> line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very interesting. >>> One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the canonical >>> directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular or >>> best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. It >>> feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the >>> writing of film history at a fundamental level. >>> >>> In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is >>> well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended, >>> especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary >>> festivals in Japan. >>> >>> Markus >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan < >>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will hold >>>> a program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar Japanese >>>> Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also a chance >>>> to see some rarely screened works: >>>> >>>> https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2 >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Matteo Boscarol >>>> Asian Docs >>>> - Documentary in Japan and Asia >>>> http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com >>>> - Film writer for Il Manifesto >>>> http://ilmanifesto.it >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> KineJapan mailing list >>>> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >>>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >>>> >>> -- >>> --- >>> >>> *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* >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > -- > --- > > *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* > > _______________________________________________ > 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... URL: From mwadamar at gmail.com Sat Dec 28 21:58:27 2019 From: mwadamar at gmail.com (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 11:58:27 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 19, Issue 11 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all KineJapan members, The new anthology *The Cold War and Asian Cinemas* is now published from Routledge. Editors are Poshek Fu and Man-Fung Yip, and Micheal Raine's and my chapters are in it. I hope you could take a look at the book. I wish you all a Happy New Year! https://www.routledge.com/The-Cold-War-and-Asian-Cinemas-1st-Edition/Fu-Yip/p/book/9781138353817 peace, Mitsuyo Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Dr. Professor of Transcultural Studies/Media Culture Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Yoshida-honmachi Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan 606-8501 Telephone: 011-81-75-753-2746 https://www.cats.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/jdts/team/academic-staff/mitsuyo-wada-marciano/ On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 3:56 PM wrote: > Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films (Markus Nornes) > 2. Re: Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films > (matteo boscarol) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 23:17:34 -0700 > From: Markus Nornes > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films > Message-ID: > tWShkGPD7Gey1NAsA at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear Earl, > > Here are a few recommendations: > > 15 > I?m dying to see the first two. ?????? is a must see?the 35mm PR film at > its apex. > > 18 > Higashi?s Okinawa film. > > 22 > If you haven?t seen Matsumoto?s early short docs. > > 24 > ????? ??? > Probably the most important ethnographic film in Japan (it?s this or > Himeda?s wedding film). Director Himeda was at the center of > anthropological doc in the postwar. Warning: it?s fairly conventional with > an emphasis on process, so you might be disappointed. > > 29 NDU > ??????? > BTW, YIDFF has a great catalog connected to this outfit. > > There you go. > > M > > > > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 5:36 PM Earl Jackson via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > > Dear Markus, Aaron and the many people who know more about documentaries > > than I do, > > The documentary retrospective looks fascinating. Could I ask for > > recommendations - which should I absolutely not miss- I will be in Tokyo > > from 1/26 to 2/09. I will really appreciate this. ;-) > > thank you > > best > > ej > > 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 > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:14 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan < > > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > > >> This is an amazing retrospective with, count ?em, 42 programs. The > >> programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is > >> sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a > through > >> line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very > interesting. > >> One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the > canonical > >> directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular > or > >> best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. > It > >> feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the > >> writing of film history at a fundamental level. > >> > >> In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is > >> well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended, > >> especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary > >> festivals in Japan. > >> > >> Markus > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan < > >> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> > >>> Dear all, > >>> > >>> Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will hold > >>> a program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar > Japanese > >>> Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also a > chance > >>> to see some rarely screened works: > >>> > >>> https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2 > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> > >>> Matteo Boscarol > >>> Asian Docs > >>> - Documentary in Japan and Asia > >>> http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com > >>> - Film writer for Il Manifesto > >>> http://ilmanifesto.it > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> KineJapan mailing list > >>> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > >>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > >>> > >> -- > >> --- > >> > >> *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 > >> < > https://www.google.com/maps/search/105+S.+State+Street+Ann+Arbor,+MI+48109?entry=gmail&source=g > >* > >> *Ann Arbor, MI 48109 > >> < > https://www.google.com/maps/search/105+S.+State+Street+Ann+Arbor,+MI+48109?entry=gmail&source=g > >-1285* > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > -- > --- > > *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* > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20191226/4d5125e4/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:56:37 +0900 > From: matteo boscarol > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films > Message-ID: <48CC1208-B35F-4E93-AD09-C7CFE0CB1F44 at gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I would also add ????????? (1969) and ??????? ?????? (1973) by Kitamura > Minao? > > Matteo Boscarol > Asian Docs > - Documentary in Japan and Asia > http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com > - Film writer for Il Manifesto > http://ilmanifesto.it > > > > On Dec 27, 2019, at 15:17, Markus Nornes via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > > > ? > > Dear Earl, > > > > Here are a few recommendations: > > > > 15 > > I?m dying to see the first two. ?????? is a must see?the 35mm PR film at > its apex. > > > > 18 > > Higashi?s Okinawa film. > > > > 22 > > If you haven?t seen Matsumoto?s early short docs. > > > > 24 > > ????????? > > Probably the most important ethnographic film in Japan (it?s this or > Himeda?s wedding film). Director Himeda was at the center of > anthropological doc in the postwar. Warning: it?s fairly conventional with > an emphasis on process, so you might be disappointed. > > > > 29 NDU > > ??????? > > BTW, YIDFF has a great catalog connected to this outfit. > > > > There you go. > > > > M > > > > > > > > > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 5:36 PM Earl Jackson via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> Dear Markus, Aaron and the many people who know more about > documentaries than I do, > >> The documentary retrospective looks fascinating. Could I ask for > recommendations - which should I absolutely not miss- I will be in Tokyo > from 1/26 to 2/09. I will really appreciate this. ;-) > >> thank you > >> best > >> ej > >> 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 > >> > >> > >>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:14 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >>> This is an amazing retrospective with, count ?em, 42 programs. The > programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is > sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a through > line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very interesting. > One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the canonical > directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular or > best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. It > feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the > writing of film history at a fundamental level. > >>> > >>> In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is > well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended, > especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary > festivals in Japan. > >>> > >>> Markus > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >>>> Dear all, > >>>> > >>>> Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will > hold a program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar > Japanese Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also > a chance to see some rarely screened works: > >>>> > >>>> https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2 > >>>> > >>>> Regards > >>>> > >>>> Matteo Boscarol > >>>> Asian Docs > >>>> - Documentary in Japan and Asia > >>>> http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com > >>>> - Film writer for Il Manifesto > >>>> http://ilmanifesto.it > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> KineJapan mailing list > >>>> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > >>>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > >>> -- > >>> --- > >>> > >>> 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. 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URL: From hakutakuwest at gmail.com Mon Dec 30 09:55:05 2019 From: hakutakuwest at gmail.com (Paul Berry) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:55:05 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Notes on Waseda Symposium on Nikkatsu Roman Poruno Message-ID: I have put together a few brief notes on the recent symposium at Waseda on Nikkatsu Roman Porno. small Waseda Daigaku Engeki Hakubutsukan Engeki Eizogaku Renkei Kenkyu Kyoten Kokai Kenkyukai ?????????????????????????? ?Roman poruno kenkyu no kako, genzai, mirai? ??????????????????12/14/19. (Roman Poruno Research: Past, Present, and Future) This was the second of what may become a series of kenkyukai presentations that were first instigated by investigation of the huge quantity of press sheets for Nikkatsu roman poruno films in the collection of the Enpaku museun at Waseda Daigaku, Toyama Campus.. The first kenkyukai symposium was held at Waseda about a year ago with a different group of scholars:??????????????????????(Explicating Roman Poruno based on their Press Sheets) 2018 ?12?22? The museum has a collection of 1,235 roman porno press sheets of which 955 are Nikkatsu, 73 are Toei, and 207 misc. others. If one discounts duplicates in the collection, there are approx. 778 different Nikkatsu examples and 61 sheets by Toei. In an admittedly hard to categorize area, there was an estimate of 1,117 roman porno films made until their demise in 1985. Using that as a standard, the collection contains press sheets for roughly 68% of the total. On this occasion there were four speakers addressing an audience of thirty-some people in a classroom on the Waseda campus. The program was arranged for each speaker to make a short introduction of their research and then have a fairly casual discussion among the panel members on a wide variety of topics. Given the short amount of time there were brief comments on a great many aspects, but little opportunity for sustained discussion of any particular point. It was announced at the beginning that there would be no questions allowed from the audience, although survey sheets were handed out with the hope that people would make written comments or give reactions to the presentations. Although the origin of the project was based on the information found on the press sheets, it was acknowledged that they only provide a certain amount of textual information that needs to be supplemented by actually viewing the films. Several speakers characterized their viewing experience as ranging from over 200 films to others who said they had seen a much smaller number. All speakers seemed well familiar with the most famous works and directors of the Nikkatsu series. References were made to various studies of the Nikkatsu series, although it was unclear how familiar they are with foreign language publications on the topic. There was mention of their awareness of the feminist-inclined area of Porn Studies that has emerged in the US. All of the speakers were giving update reports on their ongoing research rather than making formal presentations with specific conclusions. The following gives a little information on each of the speakers combined with a small sample of their comments. As topics and opinions continued to shift quickly throughout the discussions it is hard to summarize their points in any overall manner. Kono Mariko ????? Part-time Assist. Professor Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku ???????and Rikkyo Daigaku ???? ????? ???????????????? : ????????????????????? Kono?s research has focused on melodrama as a genre. Among the many topics remarked upon was the similarity of some examples of Nikkatsu roman poruno to series films like the ????????10-film series (Suzuki Norifumi, dir. Sugawara Bunta lead, 1975-1979 - which Itami satirized in Tanpopo) and the long running TV series Konyoku rotenburo renzoku satsujin????????????(Asahi Doyo wido gekijo, 1982-2007, 26 episodes, starring Furuya Kazuichi and Yamaguchi Kaori), all of which employed harem-like scenes of nude women attentive to the male lead. Hwang Kyunmin????????? Part-time Lecturer at Meiji Gakuin Daigaku ?????????? Fan?s earlier work included studies of Japanese program pictures from the 1950s and 1960s, including the Zatoichi series. She made various comments on the similarities and differences of sexually orientated films in South Korea and Japan, including clips from a 1977 Korean film and a 1982 Japanese production. Mention was made of a roman poruno film series that was shown in Seoul and elsewhere. It was pointed out that the people organizing the film showings did not fully grasp the Japanese context of the Nikkatsu roman poruno as they began the series with a showing of Imamura Shohei?s (1966, Nikkatsu) The Pornographers "Erogotoshitachi" yori Jinruigaku ny?mon (?????????? ?????), The Nikkatsu Roman Poruno Reboot was also referred to briefly as being unsuccessful in attempting to restart production. Kubo Yutaka Asst. Professor at Waseda Daigaku working at Enpaku. ??? ?????. ??. ??. ??. ??????????(????). ???????????????? ykubo315 gmail.com. Kubo, the Enpaku representative on the panel, specializes in employing a queer studies approach to cinema. The sole male on the panel, he drew some attention to the need for taking a critical look at the presentation of female-female relationships in roman poruno in addition to the rarer examples of male-male relations in this context and the need for a theoretical basis for analysis. Hatogai Mio ???? Final Stage of Doctoral Program at Waseda Daigaku ?????????????? ?????1970??????????????????????????????????????????? Hatogai is in the process of finishing a doctoral dissertation at Waseda on Nikkatsu roman porumo films. Included in her research is understanding the different stances of the noted directors of the Nikkatsu roman poruno list. Topics included the position of the female audience, gender roles, the development of Porn Studies, and so on. The above notes are but a small fragment of the large number of varied comments made by the speakers. Topics and thoughts about them were quite diverse and fast moving. There was some discussion of the role of actresses in roman porno with several people commenting on the power of Tani Naomi?s work. One speaker pointed out that all the panelists were born after the end of Nikkatsu roman poruno in 1985 which puts their work into a historical framework of examining the past Japanese culture of that time in the Showa era. Although only a brief two-hour period, the discussions showed how a larger conference could be made that might have panels devoted to various significant aspects that were briefly raised during the back-and-forth discussions held here. As all the presentations were of research in progress, it seems possible that there may be further symposiums in the future. Paul Berry Kyoto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ang?lica Cabrera Torrecilla, Allegories of Japanese women in Paprika: Tsutsui Yasutaka?s novel and Kon Satoshi?s anime Nicolas Garvizu, The Japanese Developmental State: The Case of Cool Japan Roxanne Lizelle Niveri and Sol Rojas-Lizana, ?Changes? to the new Japanese-Language Proficiency Test: Newly emerged language policies for non-Japanese and Japanese citizens Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Democratic Backsliding and the Party System in Interwar Japan Anthony Rausch. Japan?s Furusato Nozei Tax Program: Neoliberal Policy or Hometown Sentiment? Discussion papers Florian Paulsen, Gender-related discrimination in the Japanese and South Korean workforce: A comparative analysis of women?s access to productive and financial resources Tets Kimura, Restructuring diffusions of contemporary Japanese culture: Field research of Japan Expo in Paris and Two Manga Exhibitions in London Book reviews Noel Gough, Another Great Wave? Ecocriticism in Japan Sincere thanks to our contributors, readers, and team of volunteers around the world. Timothy Iles General Editor, the ejcjs From earljac at gmail.com Tue Dec 31 21:03:19 2019 From: earljac at gmail.com (Earl Jackson) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 10:03:19 +0800 Subject: [KineJapan] essay published Message-ID: Dear everyone, Please forgive the shameless self-promotion, but my essay, "The Cinematic Subject of Masumura Yasuzo" has just been published in The Wenshan Review, 13.1. It is available in the hard copy journal but also for free download online here. https://www.wreview.org/index.php/current-issue/56-vol-13-no-1/343-the-cinematic-subject-of-masumura-yasuzo-2.html Best, ej 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: From desser at illinois.edu Tue Dec 31 21:08:25 2019 From: desser at illinois.edu (Desser, David M) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 02:08:25 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] essay published In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Congrats. Look forward to reading Sent from my iPhone On Dec 31, 2019, at 6:03 PM, Earl Jackson via KineJapan wrote: ? Dear everyone, Please forgive the shameless self-promotion, but my essay, "The Cinematic Subject of Masumura Yasuzo" has just been published in The Wenshan Review, 13.1. It is available in the hard copy journal but also for free download online here. https://www.wreview.org/index.php/current-issue/56-vol-13-no-1/343-the-cinematic-subject-of-masumura-yasuzo-2.html Best, ej 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 _______________________________________________ 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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