Forgive the self promotion, but my new book has just been published  

and is available through your local bookseller:



Aaron Gerow

Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and  

Spectatorship, 1895-1925

University of California Press, 2010

ISBN 978-0520254565



Here's the blurb:



"Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the  

likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in  

Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it  

simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow explores the  

processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during  

its first three decades in Japan. He focuses in particular on how one  

trend in criticism, the Pure Film Movement, changed not only the way  

films were made, but also how they were conceived. Looking closely at  

the work of critics, theorists, intellectuals, benshi artists,  

educators, police, and censors, Gerow finds that this trend  

established a way of thinking about cinema that would reign in Japan  

for much of the twentieth century."



Other information is available on the UC Press website:



http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11055.php



There were a lot of people helped with this over the years and I would  

like to reiterate my thanks to them.



Aaron Gerow

Associate Professor

Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures

Yale University

53 Wall Street, Room 316

PO Box 208363

New Haven, CT 06520-8363

USA

Phone: 1-203-432-7082

Fax: 1-203-432-6764

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

site: www.aarongerow.com



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