[KineJapan] Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema

Michael Raine raine.michael.j at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 01:02:03 EDT 2020


This is terrific, Daisuke! Looking forward to reading it.

Michael

Michael Raine, Associate Professor in English and Writing Studies
Western University, Canada
co-editor, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:43 PM Miyao, Daisuke via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I hope you are staying healthy and doing well.
> Please allow me to promote myself. My new book, *Japonsime and the Birth
> of Cinema*, has been just published from Duke University Press. Here is
> the book description:
>
> In *Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema*, Daisuke Miyao explores the
> influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual
> style, particularly the *actualité* films made by the Lumière brothers
> between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière films, Miyao contends
> that more than being documents of everyday life, they provided a medium for
> experimenting with aesthetic and cinematic styles imported from Japan.
> Miyao further analyzes the Lumière films produced in Japan as a negotiation
> between French Orientalism and Japanese aesthetics. The Lumière films,
> Miyao shows, are best understood within a media ecology of photography,
> painting, and cinema, all indebted to the compositional principles of
> Japonisme and the new ideas of kinetic realism it inspired. The Lumière
> brothers and their cinematographers shared the contemporaneous obsession
> among Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists about how to instantly
> and physically capture the movements of living things in the world. Their
> engagement with Japonisme, he concludes, constituted a rich and productive
> two-way conversation between East and West.
>
> https://www.dukeupress.edu/japonisme-and-the-birth-of-cinema
> Duke University Press - Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema
> <https://www.dukeupress.edu/japonisme-and-the-birth-of-cinema>
> Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and
> Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of
> The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lightingand Japanese Cinema and Sessue Hayakawa:
> Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, both also published by Duke
> University Press, and Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover's Introduction to Film
> Studies.
> www.dukeupress.edu
> I am grateful for the generous blurbs from Tom and Michael.
> I hope many of you will be interested in my book! Have a nice rest of the
> summer.
>
> Best,
> Daisuke
>
> Daisuke Miyao
> Professor and 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
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