[KineJapan] Makino Mamoru book

[Michael Raine]

If anyone's interested in this fascinating connection between Miki and
Yanagita, there are two essays that deal with it in a special issue of Arts
co-edited by Marcos Centeno-Martin and I on the "Japanese documentary mode".

The essays are a translation of Fujii Jinshi's "Yanagita Kunio to bunka
eiga: Shōwa jyūnendai niokeru nichijōseikatsu no hakken to kokumin no sōzō"
(2003)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/9/2/54/htm
and an essay by Daisuke Miyao titled "What’s the Use of Culture?
Cinematographers and the Culture Film in Japan in the Early 1940s"
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/2/42

I think the other essays in the issue are also well worth reading. The
whole issue is open access and can be downloaded from this page:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/developments_japanese_documentary_mode

It's due to come out in book form shortly: I'll announce it on the list and
would be grateful if people would order it for their libraries!

Best,

Michael

Michael Raine, Associate Professor in English and Writing Studies
Western University, Canada
co-editor, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema

<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647733/the-culture-of-the-sound-image-in-prewar-japan>



*The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan*, Michael Raine and Johan
Nordström (eds),

is now available (Amsterdam University Press, 2020).



Available to order via
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647733/the-culture-of-the-sound-image-in-prewar-japan;
and in the US via http://shop.btpubservices.com/Title/9789089647733.




On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 6:12 PM Earl Jackson via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> This Makino book will be invaluable in so many ways, and this really
> brings home to me how complex, intricate, and multifaceted Japanese
> cultural histories are. I recently previewed an essay at Academia Sinica in
> Taipei I'm writing on Otsuka Eiji's manga featuring Yanagida Kunio. I had
> no idea that Otsuka was handling these interview tapes, and certainly had
> no idea he had access to the Miki Shigeru tape. The intersection here is
> Miki's quizzical collaboration with Yanagida.This is just a small example
> of how incalculable the discoveries in this book will be.
> earl
> Earl Jackson
> Chair Professor
> Foreign Languages and Literatures
> Asia University
> Professor Emeritus
> National Chiao Tung University
> Associate Professor Emeritus
> University of California, Santa Cruz
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> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:40 PM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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>> 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
>> Professor
>> Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Yale University
>> 143 Elm Street, Room 210
>> PO Box 208324
>> New Haven, CT 06520-8324
>> USA
>> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
>> Fax: 1-203-432-6729
>> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
>> website: www.aarongerow.com
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