From annekmcknight at gmail.com  Mon Sep  2 21:44:36 2024
From: annekmcknight at gmail.com (Anne McKnight)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 18:44:36 -0700
Subject: [KineJapan] Ishibashi / Gift in Los Angeles
Message-ID: <E5CB57E9-41D7-4558-A97F-DA59D061EDFE@gmail.com>

Hi all~

Some of you might be interested in this show, upcoming at the 2220 arts space in LA (formerly the Bootleg Theater, on Beverly). 

Shows are Sept 28 (matinee and evening, for GIFT) and Sept 29 (for Drive My Car.)
Relatively affordable, at $25?

More details and links below?

Anne


Acropolis Cinema presents GIFT: A Film by Ry?suke Hamaguchi X Live Score by Eiko Ishibashi. 
Acropolis welcomes multi-instrumentalist composer Eiko Ishibashi, who scored director Ry?suke Hamaguchi?s Oscar-winning Drive My Car (2021), for the Los Angeles premiere of their latest collaboration, GIFT, which features a silent film directed by Hamaguchi, accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by Ishibashi.

This project originated when Ishibashi asked Hamaguchi to create visuals to accompany her live performance. Hamaguchi decided to create a film with dialogue as a starting point, then turn it into a silent film for Ishibashi?s live performance. Consequently, the project yielded two distinct works: a live score film performance, GIFT, and a feature film, Evil Does Not Exist (2023). GIFT offers a constantly-evolving cinematic experience, with Ishibashi?s improvised live performance intervening in Hamaguchi?s visuals, seeking to reimagine the relationships between sound, image, and narrative.

TRT: 75 min.


https://dice.fm/event/8evr82-gift-eiko-ishibashi-live-scores-rysuke-hamaguchi-28th-sep-2220-arts-archives-los-angeles-tickets?
GIFT: Eiko Ishibashi live scores Ry?suke Hamaguchi Tickets | From $25 | Sep 28 @ 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles | DICE
dice.fm

Eiko Ishibashi Plays the Music of Drive My Car

Date: September 29, 2024
Time: 8:30pm
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives
Address: 2220 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90057

Los Angeles premiere! 

A short story by Haruki Murakami published in 2013 and made into a film by Ry?suke Hamaguchi, with an original soundtrack by composer Eiko Ishibashi. Tonight's event will feature Ishibashi performing selections from her Oscar-nominated score, which Pitchfork has called "glorious and entracing... as moving as the film itself." Co-presented by the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities

TRT: 60 min
In person: Eiko Ishibashi
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From azahlten at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Sep  3 05:31:44 2024
From: azahlten at fas.harvard.edu (Zahlten, Alexander)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 09:31:44 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Ishibashi / Gift in Los Angeles
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Hello Everyone,

Thanks for sending this, Anne! Just to add, from September 16-23 there will be screenings of GIFT, Drive My Car, and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy at the Harvard Film Archive, with Ryusuke Hamaguchi in attendance. You can find out more on the Harvard Film Archive?s website here: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/hamaguchi-ryusuke-the-world-as-stage

Hope to see you there if you have time and happen to be in the area!
Best,
Alex

From: KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Anne McKnight via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Date: Monday, September 2, 2024 at 21:45
To: KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu <KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Cc: Anne McKnight <annekmcknight at gmail.com>
Subject: [KineJapan] Ishibashi / Gift in Los Angeles
Hi all~

Some of you might be interested in this show, upcoming at the 2220 arts space in LA (formerly the Bootleg Theater, on Beverly).

Shows are Sept 28 (matinee and evening, for GIFT) and Sept 29 (for Drive My Car.)
Relatively affordable, at $25?

More details and links below?

Anne


Acropolis Cinema presents GIFT: A Film by Ry?suke Hamaguchi X Live Score by Eiko Ishibashi.

Acropolis welcomes multi-instrumentalist composer Eiko Ishibashi, who scored director Ry?suke Hamaguchi?s Oscar-winning Drive My Car (2021), for the Los Angeles premiere of their latest collaboration, GIFT, which features a silent film directed by Hamaguchi, accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by Ishibashi.

This project originated when Ishibashi asked Hamaguchi to create visuals to accompany her live performance. Hamaguchi decided to create a film with dialogue as a starting point, then turn it into a silent film for Ishibashi?s live performance. Consequently, the project yielded two distinct works: a live score film performance, GIFT, and a feature film, Evil Does Not Exist (2023). GIFT offers a constantly-evolving cinematic experience, with Ishibashi?s improvised live performance intervening in Hamaguchi?s visuals, seeking to reimagine the relationships between sound, image, and narrative.

TRT: 75 min.

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Eiko Ishibashi Plays the Music of Drive My Car

Date: September 29, 2024
Time: 8:30pm
Location: 2220 Arts + Archives
Address: 2220 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90057

Los Angeles premiere!

A short story by Haruki Murakami published in 2013 and made into a film by Ry?suke Hamaguchi, with an original soundtrack by composer Eiko Ishibashi. Tonight's event will feature Ishibashi performing selections from her Oscar-nominated score, which Pitchfork has called "glorious and entracing... as moving as the film itself." Co-presented by the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities

TRT: 60 min
In person: Eiko Ishibashi
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From fujiokasako at gmail.com  Wed Sep  4 02:33:40 2024
From: fujiokasako at gmail.com (Fujioka Asako)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 15:33:40 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] Tokyo Uber Blues in LA and PBS
In-Reply-To: <mailman.22.1725355913.1758.kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu>
References: <mailman.22.1725355913.1758.kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu>
Message-ID: <b8ae7101-5a0e-4ca0-98fd-c51bd5c99214@gmail.com>

Hello everyone,

Taku Aoyagi's documentary Tokyo Uber Blues is making its North American 
launch this month and the director Taku Aoyagi is scheduled to spend a 
week in LA, ahead of the film's broadcast on PBS (in the prestigious POV 
slot) in October.
The film is an entertaining personal view of Tokyo during the pandemic 
from a speeding Uber Eats delivery bike:A reflection on gig labor, the 
search for meaning, and a city on the brink of burnout.
We are looking for an English-Japanese interpreter for his stage 
presentations and Q&As, the details which will be clear shortly.
The current dates we need are Sept 23 and 24. Please contact me off the 
list.

Here's the schedule.
Opening 9/23 (Mon) LAEMMLE Cinemas: Glendale, Town Center 5, Claremont 
5, Monica Film Center
with director Taku Aoyagi 9/23 at Glendale, 9/24 at Monica Film Center
https://www.laemmle.com/film/tokyo-uber-blues
<https://www.laemmle.com/film/tokyo-uber-blues>
9/30 (Mon) 2pm USC Tutor Campus Center
with director Taku Aoyagi
https://calendar.usc.edu/event/tokyo-uber-blues-film-screening-and-qa

??[Tokyo Uber Blues] Trailer
https://vimeo.com/815547684/7dfdce8c31
??Taku's YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@TakuDocs
This episode about his trip to Sheffield DokFest in UK could be 
interesting.
https://youtu.be/0EUaW4pfpdE?si=KAVGEfGwZUpZTIOY
??Pressbook
https://tinyurl.com/2e4v2s6y
??POV website
https://www.pbs.org/pov/films/tokyouberblues/
-- 

*****

FUJIOKA Asako
Documentary Dream Center
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
www.ddcenter.org
www.yidff.jp  
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From baird at umass.edu  Fri Sep  6 17:15:20 2024
From: baird at umass.edu (Bruce Baird)
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 21:15:20 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] =?utf-8?q?Butoh_Scores=3A_Symposium=2C_Film_Screenin?=
 =?utf-8?q?gs_and_But=C3=B4_Workshops_at_Yale_Oct=2E_28_to_Nov=2E_2?=
Message-ID: <66622780-8E79-40B3-BD2D-3662C6C7E020@umass.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

I am passing along information about a fantastic symposium and set of workshops organized by Rosa van Hensbergen at Yale dedicated to understanding Hijikata Tatsumi better. As part of the symposium, there will be screenings of four archival films of Hijikata?s dances.

<https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-10/butoh-scores-workshops-performances-lectures-screenings>
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Butoh Scores<https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-10/butoh-scores-workshops-performances-lectures-screenings>
macmillan.yale.edu<https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-10/butoh-scores-workshops-performances-lectures-screenings>


Join us for a unique opportunity to journey back nearly half a century into the world of Tatsumi Hijikata?s butoh choreography.

Over the course of four days of intensive workshops, we will rediscover choreographic phrases from works of the late 1970s with dancers who originally performed in them, Saga Kobayashi and Moe Yamamoto. Through a combination of rare video recordings, dancers? notebooks from the time, and the embodied memories of Kobayashi and Yamamoto, we will go behind the scenes of Hijikata?s choreographic creation. Workshops will be limited to 20 participants and free of charge. Applications will be accepted until September 20.

The workshops will be followed by a two-day symposium of screenings and performance lectures, open to all, which will offer a rare opportunity to discover the workings of Hijikata?s choreographic method through the guidance of artists who performed in his works. We will be joined by Saga Kobayashi, Moe Yamamoto and Kei Shirasaka of Kanazawa Butoh Kan, alongside longtime archivist and producer of Hijikata?s works, Takashi Morishita, and current archivist Kae Ishimoto. Our aim across these two days will be to reveal the relationship between video recordings of Hijikata?s dance from the late 1970s and the language he used to choreograph them, drawing on the private notational archives of Kobayashi and Yamamoto along with archival documents from the Hijikata Archive at Keio University. Several of the archival films we will be showing will be screened outside of Japan for the first time. The symposium events are open to all and free of charge.


I hope to see you there,


Bruce


Bruce Baird
Professor
Japanese Program
University of Massachusetts Amherst
But?, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History

439 Herter Hall
161 Presidents Drive
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9312
Phone: 413-577-2117
Fax: 413-545-3178
baird at umass.edu<mailto:baird at umass.edu>

Recently Released: A History of But? (Oxford UP)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-history-of-but-9780197630280
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From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk  Sat Sep  7 08:23:47 2024
From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy)
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 12:23:47 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [KineJapan] Mingei Film Archive
References: <897518109.7372696.1725711827756.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <897518109.7372696.1725711827756@mail.yahoo.com>


Althoughthe webpageof the exhibition, Art Without Heroes ? Mingei, at William Morris Gallery,north London, doesn?t mention them, they have a room showing on loop, a numberof films assembled or made by Marty Gross, mostly using much earlierdocumentary material, duly credited.

Some of the earliestmaterial was shot by Bernard Leach, who visited Japan and Korea and wasinfluenced by, and influenced the Mingei movement. Leach had been much influencedby William Morris, so it is an appropriate place for this exhibition.

Both the exhibition andthe films offer parallel critiques, articulating a resistance to theclassification of ?Japanese folk art? from the ?peripheries?, where it could beread as top-down, rather than the bottom-up feel with which it was conceived.

Doubtless, there are people on this list who could write moreknowledgably on this than me, but I thought I?d give a heads-up to thisexhibition which closes on the 22nd, and also to a presentation onMonday at a JapanSociety talk at the Swedenborg by Marty Gross, on ?Creating the Mingei FilmArchive Project.

The one at Walthamstow that I found most fascinating was ?Bernard Leach films Korea and Manchuria,1935?. Unless your korean is very good, you?ll need to see it twice,once to read the subtitles of Lee Ihnbun?s critique, and again to look at therare, if somewhat faded images.

Other films in the loop are 

Mashiko Village Pottery, 1937

Onda Pottery

Bernard Leach films theMingei model room at Takashimaya department store, 1934

Hamada Shoji OverglazeDecorating. This is an extract from the 1971 film, ?The Artof the Potter? in which 



David Outerbridge and Sidney Reichman made adocumentary in which they interview Bernard Leach in St. Ives and film ShojiHamada at work in Mashiko.


Looking back at the exhibition page, I now see links to two Youtubedfilms of Gross:-

Highlights from the Mingei Archive.Some of the 9 minutes, but not all, are shared with the films above.

Making Objects for Daily Use1934-1976. This material seemed to me mostly new, apart from some from Outerbridgeand Reichman?s film.

Roger

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From odoriko21 at gmail.com  Sat Sep  7 14:15:30 2024
From: odoriko21 at gmail.com (Linda Ehrlich)
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:15:30 -0400
Subject: [KineJapan] Mingei Film Archive
In-Reply-To: <897518109.7372696.1725711827756@mail.yahoo.com>
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From lorenzojavier.torres.hortelano at urjc.es  Sat Sep  7 14:44:23 2024
From: lorenzojavier.torres.hortelano at urjc.es (Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano)
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 18:44:23 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] The Way of Shodo - Tokyo
Message-ID: <DB7PR02MB47280431260DB9C84964DB2AC59F2@DB7PR02MB4728.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>

I'm passing on information about a hybrid exhibition (photography, video art and original graphic work) that will open soon at the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo. The artists are some good Spanish friends who have been making a documentary for a couple of years about the way of Shodo and relating it to the Camino de Santiago in Spain. So this exhibition is like a preview of the documentary. I have seen most of the pieces and they are beautiful.

This is the website of the documentary itself: https://thewayofshodo.com/
[https://thewayofshodo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Seo-Home.jpg]<https://thewayofshodo.com/>
The Way of Shod? project<https://thewayofshodo.com/>
By journeying along the route of the 88 temples, a spiritual path that is connected with the Camino de Santiago, we demonstrate how the practice of Shod? serves as both an art form and a means for personal development.
thewayofshodo.com
And, please, find attached the invitation to the Embassy.

Best,



 [cid:9a440795-f4e6-4205-8724-cb2925b751aa]

Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano

Vicedecano de Investigaci?n y Relaciones Internacionales

Vice-Dean of Research and International Relations

Catedr?tico de Comunicaci?n Audiovisual

Professor of Audiovisual Communication

??????????????????????????? ?? (?????

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicaci?n

Departamento de Comunicaci?n y Publicidad

Edificio de Gesti?n - Decanato

Camino del Molino s/n, 28943 Fuenlabrada

comunicacion.investigacionrrii at urjc.es<mailto:comunicacion.investigacionrrii at urjc.es>

lorenzojavier.torres.hortelano at urjc.es<mailto:lorenzojavier.torres.hortelano at urjc.es>

Director Trama&Fondo. Lectura y Teor?a del Texto<http://www.tramayfondo.com/>

https://materscreen.udl.cat/es/

https://tramayfondo.com/congreso_12_La-Ley.html?
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From wct1 at columbia.edu  Tue Sep 10 12:51:25 2024
From: wct1 at columbia.edu (William C. Thompson)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:51:25 -0400
Subject: [KineJapan] Star Athletes as Anime Fans
Message-ID: <CAOXQ2fTGT9O1LwkXP0t1W5vxbWDqY=hXbSXHX3mwMiM6uh+u6w@mail.gmail.com>

Today's New York Times Arts section has an article about elite athletes who
are also anime fans and how their enthusiasm weaves into jock culture.
This article was also reprinted in the Japan Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/arts/television/anime-sports-athletes-pokemon-naruto-dragon-ball.html

While one NFL (football) star uses the term "nerd" in an effort to
demonstrate how a number of athletes break away from stereotypes, nowhere
in the article is the word "otaku" used.

Enjoy,
Bill Thompson
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From amanda.weiss at modlangs.gatech.edu  Thu Sep 12 07:11:19 2024
From: amanda.weiss at modlangs.gatech.edu (Weiss, Amanda)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:11:19 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] New Japanese MS Programs
Message-ID: <DM6PR07MB628386CB30F3613085CED1A7D0642@DM6PR07MB6283.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>

Dear Colleagues,

Georgia Institute of Technology is offering two new master?s degree programs in Japanese, one of which focuses on film/media/communication studies. Please find descriptions of the programs below. Thank you for sharing with interested students and colleagues. If you have any questions about the programs, please feel free to reach out to: grad at modlangs.gatech.edu<mailto:grad at modlangs.gatech.edu>.

Best,
Amanda

Amanda Weiss
Associate Professor of Japanese Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Modern Languages
Georgia Institute of Technology

Phone: (360) 890-0377
Email: amanda.weiss at modlangs.gatech.edu<mailto:amanda.weiss at modlangs.gatech.edu>
Book: Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors<https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo208658404.html> (2023)


M.S. in Global Media and Cultures
The Master of Science in Global Media and Cultures is a joint program between the School of Literature, Media, and Communication<https://lmc.gatech.edu/> and the School of Modern Languages<https://modlangs.gatech.edu/> at Georgia Tech. This unique humanities program merges curricular offerings from both Schools and gives students the opportunity to engage in advanced research and training that combines cross-cultural competence, language acquisition, and media and communications expertise with global and cultural research.
Our 30-credit hour program combines a strong foundation in media and cultural studies with advanced training in a critical global language. Through graduate assistantships, internships, a final project, and a career portfolio, students can customize their experience to their own career goals.  Students can choose one out of seven possible language concentrations including Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. GRE is not required. The application deadline is February 18, 2025.
Website: https://gmc.iac.gatech.edu

M.S. in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies

The Master of Science in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies (M.S. ALIS) is a 30-credit hour degree program offered by the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech. It is one of the first professional master?s degrees in foreign language and cultural studies in the United States with concentrations in French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The program emphasizes the real-world professional application of language for a wide range of career paths ranging from communications and nonprofit fields to business, engineering, and technology.

In addition to rigorous training in advanced-level language and cross-cultural communication, students can also study abroad, conduct research, and complete for-credit internships. Students graduate with a professional portfolio in the language of concentration, positioning them to pursue a range of internationally oriented career paths. The degree is also available as a five-year coterminal B.S./M.S. for Georgia Tech B.S. ALIS majors. GRE is not required. The application deadline is February 18, 2025.
Website: https://modlangs.gatech.edu/graduate/ms-alis

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From azahlten at fas.harvard.edu  Wed Sep 18 12:31:04 2024
From: azahlten at fas.harvard.edu (Zahlten, Alexander)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:31:04 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Call for Papers: East Asian Amateur Media Practices
 Conference (May 10/11, Harvard University)
In-Reply-To: <E5CB57E9-41D7-4558-A97F-DA59D061EDFE@gmail.com>
References: <E5CB57E9-41D7-4558-A97F-DA59D061EDFE@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BYAPR07MB488826DC8D0C8EC2A8778DD481622@BYAPR07MB4888.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>

Dear All,

Please find below the Call for Papers for a conference on (Histories of) East Asian Amateur Media Practices, to be held at Harvard on May 10/11 next year. The conference will also be used to launch the Japanese Amateur Film Archive at Harvard.

Feel to write to me with any questions you might have!

All best wishes,

Alex

Histories of East Asian ?Amateur? Media Practices Conference

May 10/11, 2025
Harvard University

Keynote Sessions Featuring:
Susan Aasman, University of Groningen
Jamie Zhao, City University of Hong Kong



We invite proposals to the East Asian ?Amateur? Media Practices conference at Harvard University. The conference aims to provide a venue for presenting research on historical and contemporary amateur media practices in East Asia and for discussing the current state and possible futures of this rapidly expanding field of inquiry.

The production and distribution of media content is now a part of everyday life - from social media posts to livestreams or fan-produced media based on popular characters. This ubiquity of popular media production and distribution has often implicitly been ascribed to digital culture and the resulting emergence of the ?produser? or of ?playbor?, destabilizing a term such as amateur.

But the production and distribution of media content outside of the commercial media industries has a long history. Be it amateur radio broadcasting in 1920s Japan, amateur film from the 1930s across East Asia, print publications made and circulated by groups and individuals from the 19th century, or ?grassroots painting? in the PRC, East Asia has an exceptionally long and deep history of what might be called amateur media practices in the (broadly speaking) modern context- and many different terms besides ?amateur? to describe it.

So far, many of the questions around ?amateur? media production in English-language research have been posed primarily in the North American or Western European context. But their extent and impact in East Asia has been particularly striking, transforming politics, consumption, and economics, built urban environments, discourses of sexuality and gender, and rhythms of everyday life. Such massive shifts raise important questions about the nature of amateur media practices and about its past and future in East Asia and the world, questions for which much remains to explore from the vantage points of both media studies and area studies.

They also raise the question of what the category of amateur practices means means differently over time, and when it is useful ? or not. The term amateur already situates these practices in very specific ways. What other terms might be more appropriate for similar phenomena across time, or do we need a different terminology depending on the temporal, regional, or media-technological context? How do ?amateur? media practices often connect to one another and form an extensive network? How do they align with, cause friction with, or complexly negotiate a co-existence  with, site-specific economic or political systems?

The East Asian Amateur Media Practices conference aims to foster interdisciplinary, intermedial, and transhistorical conversations. With a significant amount of research on amateur media practices being conducted across very different fields and disciplines, we hope to generate a conversation across these approaches, and the often very different time zones they address.

Contemporary fan studies, film studies focused on the 1930s, communications-type work on community broadband in the 1970s and many other approaches will hopefully enter in a fruitful dialogue. Broadly, we hope to collectively address questions such as the following:


  *   How do differing media situations require different theorization of ?amateur? practices - or make other terms and frameworks more productive?


  *   As ?amateur? media practices take place across media forms / genres / channels, which methodologies are useful to map them and their significance - and which specific questions are they geared to address?


  *   Do amateur media practices - past and present - present useful different models of economy, sociality, politics, or topography (i.e. planetary, global, transnational etc.) that can be made productive today?


  *   What kind of larger historical trajectories come into view once one takes more than one amateur media form into account? Does the significance of amateur media practice change with their relationship to specific media forms and expressions?


  *   Not only recent amateur practices are networked well beyond national contexts; how do amateur media practices and their networks help us track an interaction with imaginaries of nation, or of geopolitics?


  *   How do we think beyond what is the focus of much work on amateur media practices: production? How would that history look different if we additionally focused on distribution?


We invite proposals on all topics related to ?amateur? media practices in East Asia and are open to a broad span of topics and approaches. Proposals from graduate students are also very welcome. Proposals should be up to 200 words in length and include a list of three keywords and include a few sentences on how the paper contributes to an emergent field of ?amateur? media practices across media forms.

We plan to cover two nights of accommodation for all conference participants.

Please send proposals in pdf form by October 31, 2025 to:
ea.amateurmediaconference at gmail.com

The conference is organized by Alexander Zahlten and conference assistant Ami Tanahashi. It is made possible with the kind support of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Korea Institute, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.




????????
Alexander Zahlten
Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chair, Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA) Masters Degree Program
Harvard University
(He / him / his)

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From etsai at gapps.ntnu.edu.tw  Thu Sep 19 01:37:03 2024
From: etsai at gapps.ntnu.edu.tw (=?UTF-8?B?5Y+w5bir5aSnRXZh6JSh5aaC6Z+z?=)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:37:03 +0800
Subject: [KineJapan] Call for Papers: East Asian Amateur Media Practices
 Conference (May 10/11, Harvard University)
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Hello Alex,

What an interesting conference. Is the proposal deadline this year (2024)
if the conference is to be held in May next year?

Many thanks.

eva


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????????????
Eva Tsai, Ph.D.
Professor
Graduate Institute of Mass Communication
National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)

??????? <https://www.mcom.ntnu.edu.tw/index.php/faculty/> ; ??
<https://www.mcom.ntnu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/%EF%BC%A3%EF%BC%B6-Eva-202402.pdf>

Podcasts: ????????
<https://player.soundon.fm/p/71a1e8da-b594-45bf-91fb-97c1e470a956>?MIT????
<https://player.soundon.fm/p/1f3b5d9c-b2bd-48ca-9967-31eded24f1a9>??????Shida
Stories <https://open.firstory.me/user/cl01yph2r91l70946r9grt8e1/platforms>


On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 00:31 Zahlten, Alexander via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
>
>
> Please find below the Call for Papers for a conference on (Histories of)
> East Asian Amateur Media Practices, to be held at Harvard on May 10/11 next
> year. The conference will also be used to launch the Japanese Amateur Film
> Archive at Harvard.
>
>
>
> Feel to write to me with any questions you might have!
>
>
>
> All best wishes,
>
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> *Histories of East Asian ?Amateur? Media Practices Conference*
>
>
>
> May 10/11, 2025
>
> Harvard University
>
>
>
> *Keynote Sessions Featuring:*
>
> Susan Aasman, University of Groningen
>
> Jamie Zhao, City University of Hong Kong
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> We invite proposals to the East Asian ?Amateur? Media Practices conference
> at Harvard University. The conference aims to provide a venue for
> presenting research on historical and contemporary amateur media practices
> in East Asia and for discussing the current state and possible futures of
> this rapidly expanding field of inquiry.
>
>
>
> The production and distribution of media content is now a part of everyday
> life - from social media posts to livestreams or fan-produced media based
> on popular characters. This ubiquity of popular media production and
> distribution has often implicitly been ascribed to digital culture and the
> resulting emergence of the ?produser? or of ?playbor?, destabilizing a term
> such as amateur.
>
>
>
> But the production and distribution of media content outside of the
> commercial media industries has a long history. Be it amateur radio
> broadcasting in 1920s Japan, amateur film from the 1930s across East Asia,
> print publications made and circulated by groups and individuals from the
> 19th century, or ?grassroots painting? in the PRC, East Asia has an
> exceptionally long and deep history of what might be called amateur media
> practices in the (broadly speaking) modern context- and many different
> terms besides ?amateur? to describe it.
>
>
>
> So far, many of the questions around ?amateur? media production in
> English-language research have been posed primarily in the North American
> or Western European context. But their extent and impact in East Asia has
> been particularly striking, transforming politics, consumption, and
> economics, built urban environments, discourses of sexuality and gender,
> and rhythms of everyday life. Such massive shifts raise important questions
> about the nature of amateur media practices and about its past and future
> in East Asia and the world, questions for which much remains to explore
> from the vantage points of both media studies and area studies.
>
>
>
> They also raise the question of what the category of amateur practices
> means means differently over time, and when it is useful ? or not. The term
> amateur already situates these practices in very specific ways. What other
> terms might be more appropriate for similar phenomena across time, or do we
> need a different terminology depending on the temporal, regional, or
> media-technological context? How do ?amateur? media practices often connect
> to one another and form an extensive network? How do they align with, cause
> friction with, or complexly negotiate a co-existence  with, site-specific
> economic or political systems?
>
>
>
> The East Asian Amateur Media Practices conference aims to foster
> interdisciplinary, intermedial, and transhistorical conversations. With a
> significant amount of research on amateur media practices being conducted
> across very different fields and disciplines, we hope to generate a
> conversation across these approaches, and the often very different time
> zones they address.
>
>
>
> Contemporary fan studies, film studies focused on the 1930s,
> communications-type work on community broadband in the 1970s and many other
> approaches will hopefully enter in a fruitful dialogue. Broadly, we hope to
> collectively address questions such as the following:
>
>
>
>    - How do differing media situations require different theorization of
>    ?amateur? practices - or make other terms and frameworks more productive?
>
>
>
>    - As ?amateur? media practices take place across media forms / genres
>    / channels, which methodologies are useful to map them and their
>    significance - and which specific questions are they geared to address?
>
>
>
>    - Do amateur media practices - past and present - present useful
>    different models of economy, sociality, politics, or topography (i.e.
>    planetary, global, transnational etc.) that can be made productive today?
>
>
>
>    - What kind of larger historical trajectories come into view once one
>    takes more than one amateur media form into account? Does the significance
>    of amateur media practice change with their relationship to specific media
>    forms and expressions?
>
>
>
>    - Not only recent amateur practices are networked well beyond national
>    contexts; how do amateur media practices and their networks help us track
>    an interaction with imaginaries of nation, or of geopolitics?
>
>
>
>    - How do we think beyond what is the focus of much work on amateur
>    media practices: production? How would that history look different if we
>    additionally focused on distribution?
>
>
>
>
>
> We invite proposals on all topics related to ?amateur? media practices in
> East Asia and are open to a broad span of topics and approaches. Proposals
> from graduate students are also very welcome. Proposals should be up to 200
> words in length and include a list of three keywords and include a few
> sentences on how the paper contributes to an emergent field of ?amateur?
> media practices across media forms.
>
>
>
> We plan to cover two nights of accommodation for all conference
> participants.
>
>
>
> *Please send proposals in pdf form by October 31, 2025 to:*
>
> *ea.amateurmediaconference at gmail.com <ea.amateurmediaconference at gmail.com>*
>
>
>
> The conference is organized by Alexander Zahlten and conference assistant
> Ami Tanahashi. It is made possible with the kind support of the Reischauer
> Institute of Japanese Studies, the Korea Institute, and the Fairbank Center
> for Chinese Studies.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ????????
>
> Alexander Zahlten
>
> Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
>
> Chair, Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA) Masters Degree Program
>
> Harvard University
>
> (He / him / his)
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> KineJapan mailing list
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From azahlten at fas.harvard.edu  Thu Sep 19 04:49:53 2024
From: azahlten at fas.harvard.edu (Zahlten, Alexander)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:49:53 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Call for Papers: East Asian Amateur Media Practices
 Conference (May 10/11, Harvard University)
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Dear Eva,

Oopsa, thank you for pointing this out- that is of course a typo, the deadline for the proposals is of course October 31, 2024 (!). That?s a bit of a whopper- sorry to have missed that.

All best,
Alex



From: KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of ???Eva??? via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 01:42
To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Cc: ???Eva??? <etsai at gapps.ntnu.edu.tw>
Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Call for Papers: East Asian Amateur Media Practices Conference (May 10/11, Harvard University)
Hello Alex,

What an interesting conference. Is the proposal deadline this year (2024) if the conference is to be held in May next year?

Many thanks.

eva


  *   -??? ? ? ?? ? ? ??????????? ? ? ? ?? ? ???-
????????????
Eva Tsai, Ph.D.
Professor
Graduate Institute of Mass Communication
National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 00:31 Zahlten, Alexander via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:
Dear All,

Please find below the Call for Papers for a conference on (Histories of) East Asian Amateur Media Practices, to be held at Harvard on May 10/11 next year. The conference will also be used to launch the Japanese Amateur Film Archive at Harvard.

Feel to write to me with any questions you might have!

All best wishes,

Alex

Histories of East Asian ?Amateur? Media Practices Conference

May 10/11, 2025
Harvard University

Keynote Sessions Featuring:
Susan Aasman, University of Groningen
Jamie Zhao, City University of Hong Kong



We invite proposals to the East Asian ?Amateur? Media Practices conference at Harvard University. The conference aims to provide a venue for presenting research on historical and contemporary amateur media practices in East Asia and for discussing the current state and possible futures of this rapidly expanding field of inquiry.

The production and distribution of media content is now a part of everyday life - from social media posts to livestreams or fan-produced media based on popular characters. This ubiquity of popular media production and distribution has often implicitly been ascribed to digital culture and the resulting emergence of the ?produser? or of ?playbor?, destabilizing a term such as amateur.

But the production and distribution of media content outside of the commercial media industries has a long history. Be it amateur radio broadcasting in 1920s Japan, amateur film from the 1930s across East Asia, print publications made and circulated by groups and individuals from the 19th century, or ?grassroots painting? in the PRC, East Asia has an exceptionally long and deep history of what might be called amateur media practices in the (broadly speaking) modern context- and many different terms besides ?amateur? to describe it.

So far, many of the questions around ?amateur? media production in English-language research have been posed primarily in the North American or Western European context. But their extent and impact in East Asia has been particularly striking, transforming politics, consumption, and economics, built urban environments, discourses of sexuality and gender, and rhythms of everyday life. Such massive shifts raise important questions about the nature of amateur media practices and about its past and future in East Asia and the world, questions for which much remains to explore from the vantage points of both media studies and area studies.

They also raise the question of what the category of amateur practices means means differently over time, and when it is useful ? or not. The term amateur already situates these practices in very specific ways. What other terms might be more appropriate for similar phenomena across time, or do we need a different terminology depending on the temporal, regional, or media-technological context? How do ?amateur? media practices often connect to one another and form an extensive network? How do they align with, cause friction with, or complexly negotiate a co-existence  with, site-specific economic or political systems?

The East Asian Amateur Media Practices conference aims to foster interdisciplinary, intermedial, and transhistorical conversations. With a significant amount of research on amateur media practices being conducted across very different fields and disciplines, we hope to generate a conversation across these approaches, and the often very different time zones they address.

Contemporary fan studies, film studies focused on the 1930s, communications-type work on community broadband in the 1970s and many other approaches will hopefully enter in a fruitful dialogue. Broadly, we hope to collectively address questions such as the following:


  *   How do differing media situations require different theorization of ?amateur? practices - or make other terms and frameworks more productive?


  *   As ?amateur? media practices take place across media forms / genres / channels, which methodologies are useful to map them and their significance - and which specific questions are they geared to address?


  *   Do amateur media practices - past and present - present useful different models of economy, sociality, politics, or topography (i.e. planetary, global, transnational etc.) that can be made productive today?


  *   What kind of larger historical trajectories come into view once one takes more than one amateur media form into account? Does the significance of amateur media practice change with their relationship to specific media forms and expressions?


  *   Not only recent amateur practices are networked well beyond national contexts; how do amateur media practices and their networks help us track an interaction with imaginaries of nation, or of geopolitics?


  *   How do we think beyond what is the focus of much work on amateur media practices: production? How would that history look different if we additionally focused on distribution?


We invite proposals on all topics related to ?amateur? media practices in East Asia and are open to a broad span of topics and approaches. Proposals from graduate students are also very welcome. Proposals should be up to 200 words in length and include a list of three keywords and include a few sentences on how the paper contributes to an emergent field of ?amateur? media practices across media forms.

We plan to cover two nights of accommodation for all conference participants.

Please send proposals in pdf form by October 31, 2025 to:
ea.amateurmediaconference at gmail.com<mailto:ea.amateurmediaconference at gmail.com>

The conference is organized by Alexander Zahlten and conference assistant Ami Tanahashi. It is made possible with the kind support of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Korea Institute, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.




????????
Alexander Zahlten
Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chair, Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA) Masters Degree Program
Harvard University
(He / him / his)

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From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Tue Sep 24 18:41:49 2024
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Aaron Gerow)
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:41:49 -0400
Subject: [KineJapan] Muramoto Daisuke at Yale
Message-ID: <CA13E934-38A8-4C7D-B1CC-B0D2C9504835@yale.edu>

This Friday and Saturday at Yale, we will be enjoying a visit by the Japanese comedian Muramoto Daisuke. Muramoto, famous first as a member of the very successful manzai duo, Woman Rush Hour, later moved into political comedy and finally stand up. He is currently in New York training in English stand up. We will show I Am A Comedian, the documentary directed by Hyuga Fumiari about Muramoto's life and experience in the Japanese media world, which shuts out those who do political comedy. We will also have Muramoto do stand-up sets in both English and Japanese the evening before. Both are open to the public.

Stand-up Comedy by Muramoto Daisuke
September 27, 2024, 6pm, Hopper Cabaret
https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-09/japanese-stand-comedy-set-1 

I Am a Comedian screening, with Q&A by Muramoto Daisuke 
September 28, 2024, 7pm, Alice Cinema 
https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-09/i-am-comedian-2022-film-screening

Aaron Gerow
Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies
Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
320 York Street, Room 108
PO Box 208201
New Haven, CT 06520-8201
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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From dbhowmik at uw.edu  Thu Sep 26 22:14:09 2024
From: dbhowmik at uw.edu (Davinder L Bhowmik)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:14:09 -0700
Subject: [KineJapan] please post
Message-ID: <CADYMkgu=MiMpUGb_OrfzaCsckqNSytttqjFc3hPivPpAXm=U=A@mail.gmail.com>

Hello all,

I'm writing to announce that a new edited volume, *Eco-Disasters in
Japanese Cinema*, is now available for purchase: paperback ($18.00) and
E-book ($17.99).

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/eco-disasters-in-japanese-cinema/9781952636509
[cup.columbia.edu]
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This 17 chapter book, edited by Rachel DiNitto, explores disaster as a
powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first volume
dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japanese
cinema. The films examined cover 1954-2020 and include documentaries,
monster films, cult films, studio blockbusters, and activist cinema. The
chapters highlight important moments in disaster ecocinema, introduce films
not well known outside of Japan, and analyze films not previously read
through an environmental lens. Chapters are organized under intersecting
themes that address the slow and fast violence of local and planetary
environmental destruction: toxicscapes, contaminated futures and
childhoods, nuclear anxiety and violence, and ruined and apocalyptic
landscapes. This volume showcases a range of directors, eras, audiences,
and genres and illustrates the profound diversity of Japanese films that
feature systemic assaults on the environment.



Please join Rachel DiNitto & fellow contributors for the AAS Digital
Dialogue

November 6, 2024
7:00-8:15pm Eastern Time

https://www.asianstudies.org/jobs-professional-resources/aas-digital-dialogues/book-launch-eco-disasters-in-japanese-cinema/
[asianstudies.org]
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Rachel DiNitto will also be presenting on UCSD?s Japan Zoominar

October 22, 2024

4:000-5:00 Pacific Time

https://jfit.ucsd.edu/zoominar/index.html [jfit.ucsd.edu]
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Davinder L. Bhowmik (she, her, hers)
Associate Professor of Modern Japanese
Literature & Associate Chair
Department of Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington, Seattle
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From alebates at gmail.com  Fri Sep 27 13:18:30 2024
From: alebates at gmail.com (Alex Bates)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:18:30 -0400
Subject: [KineJapan] Japanese paper films
Message-ID: <CAJ6aDNoLYiDODttCwbcJ-CRsBgbiaqbuA_jkUuOdWwUJ2z_P1w@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone,
I apologize if I've missed the discussion of it already, but there was an
amazing screening of 1930's Japanese paper films at Bucknell last Tuesday.
These paper films for home screenings have been difficult to view, but have
been preserved digitally by a film and media studies professor at Bucknell,
Eric Faden. Many are from the toy film museum in Kyoto and several are from
private collectors. These short films sometimes included soundtracks from
shellac records.
Some highlights (for me) were an ?k?chi Denjir? chanbara excerpt that is
not preserved elsewhere and an anachronistic animated Ch?shingura (Called
?????) with motorcycles, skis, and cameras.
You can find more information here:
https://kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu/
<https://kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu/>
Eric will be taking them on tour next year with planned stops in LA and
Chicago, among others. He may welcome opportunities to screen them
elsewhere.
Well worth a watch if you get a chance.
best,
Alex

Alex Bates
Dickinson College



This is an interdisciplinary project including East Asian Studies,
Film/Media Studies, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science. Bucknell
scholars and engineers built a custom scanner with bespoke software for
digitally preserving and reanimating the surviving film elements (and audio
-- which often includes benshi, music, and sound effects).



The show premiered in NYC in August to a sold-out standing-room-only
audience.  Lewisburg is the second stop for 2024 before the screening
embarks on a road show tour of major cities for spring 2025.



The screenings without soundtracks will be accompanied by Japanese
musicians Yoko Reikano Kimura on koto and cellist Hikaru Tamaki (link
<https://duoyumeno.com/>
).



See this link
<https://kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu/>
to
the website and here is a trailer
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CjwrWM1y-vAKfEBSufFcIliKcIWsTTsa/view?usp=drive_link>.
Information on Twitter is here
<https://x.com/Kamifirumu>
.
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From susanneschermann at yahoo.co.jp  Mon Sep 30 22:13:14 2024
From: susanneschermann at yahoo.co.jp (Schermann Susanne)
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 11:13:14 +0900 (JST)
Subject: [KineJapan] Asking Shochiku for cover photo image
In-Reply-To: <CABhbz8Ow3wO3sJK5Cv8Tf2vb-ioxYawkHjPmFzCUc-0s9-c_Vg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CABhbz8Ow3wO3sJK5Cv8Tf2vb-ioxYawkHjPmFzCUc-0s9-c_Vg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <290210784.843763.1727748794744@mail.yahoo.co.jp>

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Hi Earl,




not sure if this problem is resolved yet. As Shochiku is huge, they have different departments for theater, Kabuki, film and so on, each separated into domestic rights and foreign rights - quite complicated.

I suppose that you should go to this page and contact them by clicking on "Contact".

https://www.shochiku.co.jp/global/en/




Maybe this is helpful

Best

Susanne







https://www.shochiku.co.jp/global/en/




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From: "Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>

To: "Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>

Cc: "Earl Jackson" <earljac at gmail.com>

Date: 2024/08/23 ? 06:38

Subject: [KineJapan] Asking Shochiku for cover photo image







Dear Everyone,

Does anyone know who and how to contact Shochiku for permission to use a still for a cover photo?

Thank you in advance.

Best,

ej

Earl Jackson

Professor, Emeritus

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Associate Professor, Emeritus

University of California, Santa Cruz




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From earljac at gmail.com  Mon Sep 30 22:41:24 2024
From: earljac at gmail.com (Earl Jackson)
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 10:41:24 +0800
Subject: [KineJapan] Asking Shochiku for cover photo image
In-Reply-To: <290210784.843763.1727748794744@mail.yahoo.co.jp>
References: <CABhbz8Ow3wO3sJK5Cv8Tf2vb-ioxYawkHjPmFzCUc-0s9-c_Vg@mail.gmail.com>
 <290210784.843763.1727748794744@mail.yahoo.co.jp>
Message-ID: <CABhbz8P3go-2vs6J6-47j3cwMidwrpjQX2SKVFU9AwhOcjC+qQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Susanne,
Thank you for writing. Another kind person steered us to the right person
and we were able to secure a cover photo.
Thank you again, I appreciate your taking the time.
Best,
ej
Earl Jackson
Professor, Emeritus
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Associate Professor, Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz


On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:13?AM Schermann Susanne via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi Earl,
>
>
> not sure if this problem is resolved yet. As Shochiku is huge, they have
> different departments for theater, Kabuki, film and so on, each separated
> into domestic rights and foreign rights - quite complicated.
>
> I suppose that you should go to this page and contact them by clicking on
> "Contact".
>
> https://www.shochiku.co.jp/global/en/
>
>
> Maybe this is helpful
>
> Best
>
> Susanne
>
>
>
> https://www.shochiku.co.jp/global/en/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> *From: *"Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
>
> *To: *"Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
>
> *Cc: *"Earl Jackson" <earljac at gmail.com>
>
> *Date: *2024/08/23 ? 06:38
>
> *Subject: *[KineJapan] Asking Shochiku for cover photo image
>
>
>
> Dear Everyone,
>
> Does anyone know who and how to contact Shochiku for permission to use a
> still for a cover photo?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Best,
>
> ej
>
> Earl Jackson
>
> Professor, Emeritus
>
> National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
>
> Associate Professor, Emeritus
>
> University of California, Santa Cruz
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> KineJapan mailing list
>
> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
>
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