[KineJapan] New Publication: The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan

Michael Raine raine.michael.j at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 12:54:55 EST 2020


Hello Roger,

Thank you so much! Please don't spend your fuel bill on the book though!
Amsterdam allows open access after a year or two. If you really can't wait
I could send you a late pdf, sub rosa. I'd be grateful if you could promote
the book to local libraries!

Best wishes,

Michael

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:52 AM Roger Macy via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Thank you Michael and Johan. It sounds terrific and, for me, essential.
> Thank you for enriching the literature. My winter fuel allowance will just
> have to be re-prioritised ;>)
> Roger
>
> On Monday, 7 December 2020, 18:11:33 GMT, Michael Raine via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Johan Nordström and I are pleased to announce the publication of *The
> Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan*, an anthology on the
> transition to sound in Japanese cinema. We're fortunate to have some
> terrific contributions from established and emerging Japanese scholars of
> the period. It's expensive but I hope the book can find its way into
> libraries and some personal collections. I've pasted the table of contents
> below.
>
> The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan
> Table of Contents
>
> Introduction / Michael Raine and Johan Nordström
> 1. A Genealogy of kouta eiga: Silent Moving Pictures with Sound / Sasagawa
> Keiko
> 2. Katsutaro's Trilogy: Popular Song and Film in the Transitional Era from
> Silent Film to the Talkie / Hosokawa Shuhei
> 3. Japanese Cinema and the Radio: The Sound Space of Unseen Cinema / Niita
> Chie
> 4. Architecture of Sound: The Modernization of Cinematic Space in Japan /
> Ueda Manabu
> 5. 'No Interpreter, Full Volume': the Benshi and the Sound Transition in
> 1930s Japan / Michael Raine
> 6. The Image of the Modern Talkie Film Studio: Aesthetics and Technology
> at P.C.L. / Johan Nordström
> 7. The Dawn of the Talkies in Japan: Mizoguchi Kenji's Hometown / Nagato
> Yohei
> 8. The Early talkie frame in Japanese cinema / Itakura Fumiaki
> Index
>
> The publisher's page is at:
>
> https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647733/the-culture-of-the-sound-image-in-prewar-japan
> There's a link on that page to a flyer and a pdf of the introductory
> chapter, which I've also attached to this email. If you know anyone who
> would be interested, please let them know!
>
> The book is available to order at:
>
> https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647733/the-culture-of-the-sound-image-in-prewar-japan
> ;
> and in the US at:
> http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9789089647733.
> There's a 20% off code that can be used at checkout: Pub_SoundImage.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael Raine, Western University, Canada
> co-editor, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema
>
>
>
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