University of Michigan's Center for Japanese Studies presents: Japanese Film Reprint Series Edited by Abé Mark Nornes http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/pubs/cjsfaculty/filmseries.html The Center for Japanese Studies publications program has kicked off a new electronic publishing project. As part of this, UM's Japan faculty has been invited to create reprint series for their respective disciplines. The first of these is offered by Markus Nornes for Japanese film studies, and contains many books, journals, newsletters, and previously classified memoranda. The Proletarian Film Movements collection even contains precious records from the interwar censors and quicktimes of most of the extant Prokino films. Features include: —Completely searchable text across all books (for English) —Download books as pds, or read in our browsing interface —Color images in scalable image database for close analysis —Quicktime films in both large and small sizes —Fully annotated —New introductions by Donald Richie and Harry Harootunian —Free! —[Coming Soon: print-to-order hardcovers] To the Distant Observer, by Noël Burch (1979), with a new introduction by H. D. Harootunian Japanese Cinema: Film Style and National Character, by Donald Richie (1971), with a new introduction by the author Production Materials from The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1946) Prewar Proletarian Film Movements Collection ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]