Kinema Club Conference

Kinema Club Conference
© Adrian Anton
  • 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)

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