Kinema Club Workshop
The 12th Kinema Club Workshop on Japanese film and moving image media will be an intimate event with only 6 pre-distributed papers. The following papers will be discussed at Kinema Club XII (in alphabetical order): Michael ARNOLD: “The Pornography of Remediation in Pink Film” Oliver DEW: “Making Ethnicity Legible in the Yakuza Film” Jack LICHTEN: “Japan’s Vietnam War: 1960s Politics, Korea, and the United States in the Films of Ôshima Nagisa” Christine L. Marran: “Seeing Double: Slow Violence in Documentary Film” MISONO Ryoko: “Fallen Women on the Edge of the Empire: Shimizu Hiroshi’s Films of Yokohama and the Image of Imperial Japan in the 1930s” Kyoko OMORI: “Usher Unsilenced: Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe by Film and Benshi” Presenters will be limited to a 5-10 minute introduction, followed by a focused discussion of the work at hand (totaling an hour per presenter). Participation is open to anyone who pre-registers, on the understanding that all participants read the papers and actively engage in the workshop.