[KineJapan] Call for contributors to a new volume on 1930s Japanese Cinema

[Earl Jackson]

thank you, Sean for the heads-up. It sounds like a great project.
best
ej
Earl Jackson
Chair Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Asia University
Professor Emeritus
National Chiao Tung University
Associate Professor Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz


On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 11:08 PM Sean O'REILLY via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> In light of the just-released, and quite intriguing, review by Markus of
> the recent slew of Handbooks of Japanese Cinema, mentioned a few issues ago
> in the digest, it's with some trepidation that I make this announcement,
> but I'm currently gathering contributors for--you guessed it--a handbook on
> the topic of  Japanese cinema. This handbook is focused relatively
> narrowly, on the single decade of the 1930s.
>
> While this topic will doubtless immediately call to mind the 2020 AUP book
> edited by Michael Raine and Johan Nordstrom, which I and I think many of us
> read with great interest and enthusiasm, I am optimistic that the strict
> chronological focus on the 1930s and the relatively large number of
> contributors/voices I am seeking (around 20) may serve to give the new
> volume its own unique identity. Anyone with an interesting idea or angle on
> 1930s cinema (broadly defined) in Japan (also potentially broadly defined!)
> is welcome to contact me and begin discussing the possibility of
> contributing, up to and including the scholars who worked on the AUP book
> if they have any interest in taking up a relatively similar topic once more.
>
> I'm happy and grateful indeed to report that some of the people in this
> community have already graciously committed to contributing a chapter to
> this upcoming volume, as have a few Japanese scholars who may not
> necessarily be reading these English-language digests but are nonetheless
> very much part of our community. That said, there is still space in the
> volume for several more contributions, which is why I am reaching out today.
>
> In the volume, I am aiming for relatively short contributions of about
> 8000 words each (though this is negotiable), with rough drafts of chapters
> due by the very end of 2022 (also potentially negotiable to some extent),
> with 2023 given over to peer review and revision, and a firm (i.e., signed)
> commitment by the publisher to release the volume in March 2024. I would be
> more than happy to discuss any and all other details with prospective
> contributors either by email or via Zoom (or equivalent). Please reach out
> to me at seanoreilly at aiu.ac.jp at any time, and I will gladly share with
> you the formal call for contributors with all the relevant dates and so
> forth.
>
> It is a very exciting time to be involved in researching Japanese cinema,
> I must say, and I am both honored and proud to be a member of Kinema Club!
> Thanks very much for your time.
>
> Best,
> Sean (O'Reilly)
> _______________________________________________
> KineJapan mailing list
> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20220317/fbe96a4f/attachment.html>