[KineJapan] Dialectics without Synthesis

Tue Sep 8 20:10:57 EDT 2020

Congratulations Naoki!
Thank you for the discount code. Can't wait to read it!

Shota

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 8:31 AM Thomas Ball via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Thank you so much!
> Looking forward,
> Thomas
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 8, 2020, 7:07:33 PM EDT, Naoki Yamamoto via
> KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Thomas,
>
> Thanks for your interest! Attached below is an invitation to my talk. You
> have to have a Zoom account to join, but I hope it shouldn’t be a big
> burden under this pandemic moment.
>
> Look forward to seeing you there!
>
> Best,
> Naoki
>
> ----
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> We hope everybody has had a great start of the new academic year.
> We are excited to announce that our new Modern Japanese Culture
> Webinar series will begin on September 18 at 5 PM EST with an inaugural
> talk by Naoki Yamamoto (Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, UC
> Santa Barbara).
>
> Naoki will give a presentation on his newly released book Dialectics
> without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame. As
> the book blurb informs us, "Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan’s
> active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation
> of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a
> variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature,
> avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new
> approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of
> the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this
> study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism
> and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are
> challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of
> knowledge production and consumption."
>
> The talk will 45-minute long and will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A
> time. Those of you who would like to continue to discussion are invited to
> stay connected for another 30 minutes of informal conversation with the
> author.
>
> Here is the Zoom Meeting ID:
>
> Topic: Modern Japanese Culture Webinar
> Time: Sep 18, 2020 04:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
>
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> We hope to see all of you there.
>
> Best,
>
> Luciana Sanga
> Wakako Suzuki
> David Boyd
>
> On Sep 8, 2020, at 1:51 PM, Thomas Ball via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Naoki-
>    I would like to participate in your book talk on the 18th.
> Thank you!
> Thomas Ball
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 8, 2020, 4:29:23 PM EDT, Naoki Yamamoto via
> KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Dear KineJapaners,
>
> I’m happy to announce that my new book, *Dialectics without Synthesis:
> Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame*, is now available.
> This is a product of many unexpected, but no less stimulating,
> trans-Pacific encounters I was lucky to have during the past years. Kudos
> go first to my great teachers at Meiji Gakuin and Yale, as well as to many
> of my colleagues on this list.
>
> You can read the book’s Introduction at the UC Press's website (click
> “Google Preview”). You can also get a 30% discount if you use the code
> “17M6662” at checkout!
>
> https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520351806/dialectics-without-synthesis
>
> In addition, I’ll give an online book talk on *Friday, September 18, 5PM
> EST*, as part of the Modern Japanese Culture Webinar Series organized by
> Luciana Sanga of Northwestern University. You are welcome to join this
> event, but please contact me offline if you are interested in attending.
> I’ll send you an individual invitation.
>
> All the best,
> Naoki
>
> Naoki Yamamoto
> Assistant Professor
> Film and Media Studies
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> yamamoto at filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
>
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