Kinema Club Conference
- Kinema Club Conference for Film and Moving Images from Japan XV:
Film and Moving Images from Japan NOW – Film in the New Media Ecology - Friday, June 5, 9:00 – 12:30
- Saturday, June 6, 9:00 – 12:30
- Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Theater, Film and Media Science, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, room: IG 7.312
- Conference in English
- Admission free
This conference focuses on current film and moving images from Japan and the results of the radical transformations it has experienced. Once a powerful studio system, the industry is now one link of many in a complex media environment. The conference explores how Japanese films have changed, and how we can understand that change.
Program
More information can be found here: www.kinemaclub.org
Friday, June 5 | |
9:00-10:45 | Roland Domenig, Meiji Gakuin University About the demise of movie theaters in Japan Julian Ross, International Film Festival Rotterdam Japanese Films at International Film Festivals: IFFR as a Case Study MA Ran, Nagoya University Towards the Community Cinema Network: Eiga-sai as Film Festival & Mini-theaters Jasper Sharp, Independent Scholar Japan and Transnational Technologies of Cinema Exhibition in the Digital Age |
11:00 - 12:30 | Ryan Cook, Emory University Media Ecology in the Anthropocene Yuriko Furuhata, McGill University The “Format” and the Expanded Screen Environment Aaron Gerow, Yale University Kurosawa Kiyoshi and the Spectre of Cinema and Auteurship |
Saturday, June 6 | |
9:00-10:45 | Earl Jackson, Jr., National Chiao Tung University Dis-contents of the Form: Kumakiri Kazuyoshi’s Novel Adaptations. Kotaro NAKAGAKI, Daito Bunka University Adolescence in the New Teen Film Movement: Shinji Somai, Nobuhiko Obayashi, and Cultural Tendencies of the 1980s Dr. Lucile Druet Contours of dream and resistance - Experimental shorts by Akino Kondoh / Yoriko Mizushiri / Shishi Yamasaki / Noriko Yamaguchi Catherine Munroe Hotes, Nishikata Film Review / Independent Scholar The Art of Self Promotion: Japanese Auteur Animation in the Internet Age |
11:00 - 12:30 | Dick Stegewerns, University of Oslo And the Battle Goes On. An Analysis of the Success of Eternal Zero and Other Recent War Films Paul Berry, Kansai Gaidai University Rebranding Eternity: Transforming Cynicism into Patriotic Adulation in “Eien no 0” Shota Tsai Ogawa, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Yang Yong-hi: (A)topical Home Movies |
16:00 - 18:00 | Keynote Roundtable: Perspectives on the State of the Study of Film and Moving Images from Japan Participants: Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University), Yuka Kanno (Doshisha University), Phil Kaffen (New York University), Hikari Hori (Columbia University), Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University) |