[KineJapan] Makino Mamoru book

[Earl Jackson]

Thank you, Michael!

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 12:27 Michael Raine via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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>
> <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089647733/the-culture-of-the-sound-image-in-prewar-japan>
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>
> *The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan*, Michael Raine and Johan
> Nordström (eds),
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> is now available (Amsterdam University Press, 2020).
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> 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.
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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 6:12 PM Earl Jackson via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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