The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema

Daisuke Miyao is Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, which was awarded the 2007 Book Award in History from the Association of Asian American Studies.

• Introduction ; Part 1: What Is Japanese Cinema Studies?: Japanese Cinema and Cinema Studies ; Chapter 1: Japanese Film Without Japan: Toward an Undisciplined Film Studies (Eric Cazdyn) ; Chapter 2: Triangulating Japanese Film Style (Ben Singer) ; Chapter 3: Critical Reception: Historical Conceptions of Japanese Film Criticism (Aaron Gerow) ; Chapter 4: Creating the Audience: Cinema as Popular Recreation and Social Education in Modern Japan (Hideaki Fujiki) ; Part 2: What Is Japanese Cinema?: Japanese Cinema and the Transnational Network ; Chapter 5 Adaptation As "Transcultural Mimesis" (Michael Raine) ; Chapter 6 The Edge of Montage: A Case of Modernism/Modanizumu in Japanese Cinema (Chika Kinoshita) ; Chapter 7 Nationalizing Madame Butterfly: The Formation of Female Stars in Japanese Cinema (Daisuke Miyao) ; Chapter 8 Performing Colonial Identity: Byeonsa, Colonial Film Spectatorship, and the Formation of National Cinema in Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule (Dong Hoon Kim) ; Chapter 9 Outpost of Hybridity: Paramount's Campaign in Japan, 1952-1962 (Hiroshi Kitamura) ; Chapter 10 Erasing China in Japan's "Hong Kong Films" (Kwai Cheung Lo) ; Chapter 11 The Emergence of the Asian Film Festival: Cold War Asia and Japan's Re-entrance to the Regional Film Industry in the 1950s (Sang Joon Lee) ; Chapter 12 Yamagata - Asia - Europe: International Film Festival Short-Circuit (Abe Mark Nornes) ; Part 3: What Japanese Cinema Is!: Japanese Cinema and the Intermedial Practices ; Chapter 13 Nitrate Film Production in Japan: a Historical Background of the Early Days (Okada Hidenori - Translated by Ayako Saito) ; Chapter 14 Sketches of Silent Film Sound in Japan: Theatrical Functions of Ballyhoo, Orchestras and Kabuki Ensambles (Hosokawa Shuhei) ; Chapter 15 The Jidaigeki Film Genre: Twilight Samurai and Its Contexts (Yamamoto Ichiro - Translated by Diane Wei Lewis) ; Chapter 16 Occupation and Memory: the Representation of Woman's Body in Postwar Japanese Cinema (Ayako Saito) ; Chapter 17 Cinema and Memory: Confabulated Memories, Nishijin (1961) (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano) ; Chapter 18 By Other Hands: Environment and Apparatus in 1960s Intermedia (Myriam Sas) ; Chapter 19 Viral Contagion in the Ringu Intertext (Carlos Rojas) ; Chapter 20 Manga/Anime/Games (the Media Mix) and the Metaphoric Economy of World (Alexander Zahlten)

Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema can be useful even for scholars in Film Theory with a minor interest for Japan or Asia. Let's hope this excellent Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema will be translated into other languages, including...Japanese!