[KineJapan] Makino Mamoru book

[Markus Nornes]

I'm really looking forward to this. Makino was so helpful for me when I
wrote my dissertation, sharing all sorts of precious things from his deep
closets. However, he held those tapes close. He told me about them, and
many were with filmmakers I was researching. More than once, I asked if
he'd play them for me. Each time, he'd nod and flash his charming smile in
the way he does......saying no without actually saying no.

I guess this book means that he didn't give these tapes to Columbia. I'm
not surprised. But it's great these folks built a book around them.

Markus


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*Markus Nornes*
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:40 AM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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.
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> 牧野守 在野の映画学 戦時下・戦後映画人との対話
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> 近藤和都・森田のり子・大塚英志（編）
> http://www.ohtabooks.com/publish/2021/01/18164541.html
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> Aaron Gerow
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> Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
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> Yale University
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