I hope you and yours are well during this uncertain time. Daisuke Miyao's *Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema <https://www.dukeupress.edu/japonisme-and-the-birth-of-cinema>* is now available from Duke University Press. Miyao reveals the undetected influence that Japanese art and aesthetics had on early cinema and the pioneering films of the LumiƩre brothers. Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of *The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting* *and Japanese Cinema *and *Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom*, both also published by Duke University Press, and *Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover's Introduction to Film Studies*. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 we are no longer able to send unsolicited print copies of books. Please confirm your current/temporary shipping address in order for us to ship a copy to you. Print copies should be available in the next few weeks. Please respond as soon as possible with new delivery instructions. If preferred, I have attached a PDF of the book to this email. We are also happy to follow up later with a print copy sent directly to their chosen reviewer. Just let us know! Sincerely, Camille -- *Camille Wright *| Publicity Assistant Duke University Press 905 W. Main Street 18-B, Durham, NC 27701 tel 1.919.687.3656 [log in to unmask] dukeupress.edu | Twitter: @DUKEpress <https://twitter.com/dukepress> she/her/hers ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://screenlex.org