[KineJapan] So I wrote a book review...

[Miyao, Daisuke]

Dear Markus,

Thank you for sharing your book review with us. No need to apologize! I am also thrilled to see these new volumes!

Best,
Daisuke

Daisuke Miyao
Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature
Director of Film Studies
University of California, San Diego
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Hello all,

I wrote a book review. I jotted down my thoughts about the recent slew of handbooks on Japanese cinema. I couldn't help thinking about my first encounter with Japanese cinema scholarship, so it begins...

Thirty-five years ago I was browsing through the stacks of a used bookstore in Boulder, Colorado, when I stumbled on a cache of Japanese cinema books. Having just discovered Mizoguchi and Kurosawa, I impulsively bought the lot. In an instant, I had acquired most of the English-language literature on this national cinema that had been published over various years, which now sit at the corner of a shelf in my office. Today I am amazed by the fact that a slew of newly released Japanese cinema anthologies take up roughly the same amount of space....That they all arrive more or less at once suggests they are symptomatic of an important moment—of an inflection point, a bottleneck, or even a crisis.

If you want to read more, head to your library. If your library doesn't have FQ, drop me a line off stage and I'll help.

I must apologize to Daisuke, Julian and Nikki. I initially pitched a review that would include the Oxford handbook and the Routledge 4-volume set retrospective of the field. However, FQ wouldn't let me because they were "too old." I hope everyone reads them all.

There are some 111 essays between all these new handbooks. It's rather astounding that there's basically no overlapping or redundancies. Japanese cinema presents that rich a topic, and you folks are just so impressive.

Markus

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The Japanese Cinema Book
, edited by Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema
, edited by Joanne Bernardi and Shota T. Ogawa
A Companion to Japanese Cinema
, edited by David Desser
Markus Nornes

BOOK DATA Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips, eds., The Japanese Cinema Book. London: Bloomsbury/BFI, 2020. $121.50 cloth, $44.95 paper, $40.45 e-book. 624 pages.

Joanne Bernardi and Shota T. Ogawa, eds., Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2020. $250 cloth. 382 pages.

David Desser, ed., A Companion to Japanese Cinema. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2022. $185 cloth. 736 pages.

Film Quarterly (2022) 75 (3): 89–92.
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Professor of Asian Cinema
Interim Chair, Dept. of Asian Languages and Culture
Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design

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