Apologies for crossposting: The Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences has just published the 10th issue of Iconics: International Studies of the Modern Image (ISSN 1345-4447), featuring articles by major scholars in English and French on cinema and other modern image media. The table of contents is as follows: Pragmatism and the Interpretation of Films - Martin Lefebvre La Fin du Grand Sommeil de l'Introuvable Dame du Lac - Marc Cerisuelo Liquid Cinema and the Watery Substance of Vision - A. L. Rees Kinodrama and Kineorama: Modernity and the Montage of Stage and Screen - Okubo Ryo The "Eternal Virgin" Reconsidered: Hara Setsuko in Contexts - Kanno Yuka Strange Bedfellows: Hasumi Shigehiko and Oshima Nagisa on Sex, Censorship and Cinema - Ryan M. Cook Where Did the Bluebird of Happiness Fly?: Bluebird Photoplays and the Reception of American Films in 1910s Japan - Yamamoto Naoki Kneeling on Broken Glass: Psychoanalysis and Japan Film Studies - Jonathan M. Hall Iconics is published once every 2 years as the international journal of the JASIAS and introduces articles in English, French and German. The Society also publishes the journal Eizogaku twice a year in Japanese. Iconics features refereed submissions from JASIAS members and invited articles by major world scholars, as well one translated article that was selected by the editorial board as the best piece published in the previous two years in Eizogaku (Okubo Ryo's article is that piece in Issue 10). For a list of the contents of previous issues of Iconics, please consult the JASIAS website: http://www.art.nihon-u.ac.jp/jasias/iconics-ie.html Inquiries about acquiring single issues of Iconics or starting a subscription, or about joining the JASIAS (Japan's largest film and modern image media studies society), can be addressed to the JASIAS office: [log in to unmask] ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org