[KineJapan] Book launch Companion to Japanese Cinema - SOAS, 24th Jan 4-6.30pm UK Time

[Marcos Pablo Centeno Martin (Other)]

Dear all,

This is to invite you to the following book launch. While the volume edited by David Desser is comprised of 30 contributions from leading scholars in the field, the event will only count on introductions to some of the chapters, mostly by scholars based in the UK.

24th January 4-6.30pm (UK Time)
Online. The event is free but you must register in advance here<https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-companion-japanese-cinema>
Japan Research Centre, SOAS.
Book launch:
David Desser (ed.) Companion to Japanese Cinema. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2022
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-companion-japanese-cinema


This book offers an up-to-date and rigorous examination of historical and modern Japanese cinema edited by the distinguished scholar David Desser, Emeritus Professor from Univsrsity of Illinois, which counts on thirty contributors by leading scholars in the field of Japanese Film. The book delivers insightful new material on the History, Ideology, and Aesthetics of Japanese cinema including under-appreciated directors, little-known stars and genres as well as innovative approaches to gender issues, intermediality, documentary film and modernity among others. This publication is part of the Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas series. The event counts on presentations by some of the US and UK/Europe-based contributors of the book.


Speakers and chapter presentations

  *   Welcome
Fabio Gygi, Chair, Japan Research Centre, SOAS University of London

  *   Introduction
By editor David Desser (University of Illinois)

  *   Mad, Bad, and Beautiful: Revisiting Kurosawa’s Women
Dolores P. Martinez (SOAS, University of London. University of Oxford)

  *   Yoshimura Kozaburo and the Working Woman in the Old Capital
Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)

  *   Biographies of Loss: The Cinematic Melancholy of Kawase Naomi
Erin Schoneveld (Haverford College)

  *   Ainu in Documentary Films: Promiscuous Iconography and the Absent Image
Marcos P. Centeno-Martín (University of Valencia. Birkbeck, University of London)

  *   “Female Director”: Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japan
Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández (University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid) and Irene González-López (Birkbeck, University of London)

  *   ’Scope and the City: Reframing a Modern Metropolis
Jasper Sharp (Midnight Eye)

Coordinated by Dr Marcos Centeno m.centeno at bbk.ac.uk<mailto:m.centeno at bbk.ac.uk>

Event hosted in partnership with the Japan Foundation<https://www.jpf.org.uk/>.



All the best,

Marcos Centeno

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