Joanne Bernardi

A new look at an important era of Japanese cinema, featuring translations of key scripts.

The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement

Writing in Light

Shota T. Ogawa

Suspense and border crossing : Ozu Yasujirō's crime melodrama / Ryoko Misono ; translated by Kimberlee Diane Sanders and Shota T. Ogawa -- Beyond Mt. Fuji and the Lenin cap : identity crisis in Taniguchi Senkichi's Akasen kichi (The red light military base, 1953) / Hideyuki Nakamura ; translated by Shota T. Ogawa and Bianca Briciu -- Home movies of the revolution: proletarian filmmaking and countermobilization in interwar Japan / Diane Wei Lewis -- When Marnie was there : female friendship film and the genealogy of queer girls culture / Yuka Kanno -- Making sense of Nakai Masakazu's film theory, "Kino Satz" / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- Geysers of another nature : the optical unconscious of the Japanese science film / Anne McKnight -- Kaiju films as exportable content : reassessing the function of the Japanese Film Export Promotion Association / Takeshi Tanikawa ; translated by Caitlin Casiello and Joanne Bernardi -- "Fugitives" from the studio system : Ikebe Ryō, Sada Keiji, and the transition from cinema to television in the early 1960s / Takafusa Hatori -- Solo animation in Japan : empathy for the drawn body / Paul Roquet -- Media models of "amateur" film and manga / Alexander Zahlten -- Utsushie : Japanese magic lantern performance as pre-cinematic projection practice / Machiko Kusahara -- "Inter-mediating" global modernity : Benshi film narrators, multisensory performance, and fan culture / Kyoko Omori -- Between silent and sound : the liminal space of the Japanese "sound version" / Johan Nordström -- Marionettes no longer : politics in the early puppet animation of Kawamoto Kihachirō / Noboru Tomonari -- Rhetorics of autonomy and mobility in Japanese "AAA" games : the metal gear solid and Resident evil series within a global media context / Daniel Johnson -- Pointing through the screen : archiving, surveillance, and atomization in the wake of Japan's 2011 triple disasters / Joel Neville Anderson -- A historical survey of film archiving in Japan / Kae Ishihara -- Japanese film history and the challenges of IMAGICA WEST Corp. / Kanta Shibata (translated by Thomas Kabara and Isabella Bilodeau) -- A case study of Japanese film exhibition in North America : the Japan Society, New York / Kyoko Hirano -- Regional film archive in transit: Yasui Yoshio and Kobe Planet Film Archive / Shota T. Ogawa -- New paths toward preserving Japanese cinema : the Toy Film Museum backstory / Joanne Bernardi.

Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema

Paolo Cherchi Usai

Tami Williams

Joshua Yumibe

Remnants of early films often have a story to tell. As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview of a film archive, knowledge about how the artifact was collected, circulated, and repurposed threatens to become obscured. When the question of origin is overlooked, the story can be lost. Concerned contributors in Provenance and Early Cinema challenge scholars digging through film archives to ask, "How did these moving images get here for me to see them?" This volume, which features the conference proceedings from Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, 2018, questions preservation, attribution, and patterns of reuse in order to explore singular artifacts with long and circuitous lives.

Joanne Bernardi

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