[KineJapan] Makino Mamoru book

[Gerow Aaron]

A fascinating new book is hitting the bookstores. As many of you know, Makino Mamoru has been very important for film studies in Japan, not only creating the Makino Collection (now at Columbia) but also supervising many journal reprints and publishing his own studies of censorship. This even though he is not an academic (his profession was documentary filmmaker). Markus Nornesand I published a book dedicated to him quite a long time ago, but a few years ago, the pop culture scholar Otsuka Eiji "discovered" Makino-san through one of his students, and began a project on Makino. This one centered on the cassette tapes of Makino's interviews with a number of important figures in the film world of the 1930s and 40s. Not the famous stars and directors, but the women and men behind the camera or who were studying film from the side. I once used one of these interviews with Kamei Fumio for YIDFF's Documentary Box, but there was a real treasure trove of interviews with many others. I was involved with this project for a bit, but Otsuka divided up the interviews, with each  person transcribing them and presenting on them. The result is this book, which is edited by Otsuka, Morita Noriko, and Kondo Kazuto. It features interviews with Atsugi Taka, Miki Shigeru, Eto Fumio, Hatano Kanji, Kishi Fumiko, Omura Einosuke, Noto Setsuo, and Ito Takero.

牧野守　在野の映画学　戦時下・戦後映画人との対話

近藤和都・森田のり子・大塚英志（編）

http://www.ohtabooks.com/publish/2021/01/18164541.html


Aaron Gerow
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