[KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 19, Issue 11

Sat Dec 28 21:58:27 EST 2019

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 <kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

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>    1. Re: Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films (Markus Nornes)
>    2. Re: Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films
>       (matteo boscarol)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 23:17:34 -0700
> From: Markus Nornes <nornes at umich.edu>
> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films
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> 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*
> >>
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> *Markus Nornes*
> *Professor of Asian Cinema*
> Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
> Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design
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> *Department of Film, Television and Media*
> *6348 North Quad*
> *105 S. State Street*
> *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285*
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> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:56:37 +0900
> From: matteo boscarol <matteo.boscarol at gmail.com>
> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films
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> 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. 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
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> >
> > 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
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