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 ---- 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]