[KineJapan] Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema

Miyao, Daisuke dmiyao at ucsd.edu
Sat Aug 22 13:33:41 EDT 2020


Thank you for your kind words, David. I will contact the press about this as well.

Best,
Daisuke
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We shall be getting the book presently from Duke.  My wife is book review editor for Quarterly Review of Film and Video.  Perhaps I will review it or perhaps we'll send it out.

David

David Desser
Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies and Comparative and World Literature
Emeritus Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Illinois
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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.

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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.
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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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