Book Reviews

Latest Book Reviews

Published
21 December 2013
picture: 'Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980'

Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980

Published
3 September 2012
picture: 'Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture'

Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

Published
13 May 2011
picture: 'Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji'

Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji

Published
14 March 2011
picture: 'A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan'

A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan

Index

Title Author / Editor Publisher
‘Beat’ Takeshi Kitano Abe, Kasho Tadao Press / RM Europe
Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors, A Jacoby, Alexander Stone Bridge Press
Hundred Years of Japanese Film, A Richie, Donald Kodansha International
Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan, A Gerow, Aaron Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Anime Perdute: Il cinema di Miike Takashi Gerow, Aaron Il Castoro, Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Art Theatre Guild: Unabhängiges Japanisches Kino 1962-1984 Gerow, Aaron Vienna International Film Festival
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) Lippit, Akira Mizuta University of Minnesota Press
Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas Fu, Poshek Stanford University Press
Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema Nornes, Abé Mark University of Minnesota Press
Contemporary Japanese Film Schilling, Mark Weatherhill
East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film Schilling, Mark I.B. Tauris
Flowers From Hell: The Modern Japanese Horror Film Harper, Jim Noir Publishing
Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary Nornes, Abé Mark University of Minnesota Press
Ga Netchu! The Manga Anime Syndrome Nornes, Abé Mark Deutsches Filmmuseum
Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980 D., Chris Poison Fang Books
Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation McCarthy, Helen Stone Bridge Press
Introduction to Japanese Horror Film Balmain, Colette Edinburgh University Press
Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films Weisser, Thomas Vital Books
Japanese Cinema: Essential Handbook Weisser, Thomas Vital Books
Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji Ridgely, Steven C. University of Minnesota Press
Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era Through Hiroshima Nornes, Abé Mark University of Minnesota Press
Japanese Horror Cinema Nornes, Abé Mark Edinburgh University Press
Kawase Naomi: I film, il cinema Nornes, Abé Mark Effatà Editrice, Infinity Festival
Kitano Takeshi Gerow, Aaron British Film Institute, World Directors Series
Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human Gerow, Aaron University of Minnesota Press
Mechademia Volume 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga Gerow, Aaron University of Minnesota Press
Mon effroyable histoire du cinéma Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Rouge Profond
Mr Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Film Under the American Occupation, 1945-1952 Hirano, Kyoko Smithsonian Institute Press
No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema Schilling, Mark FAB Press
Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film D., Chris I.B. Tauris, Palgrave Macmillan
Ozu’s Anti-Cinema Yoshida, Kiju University of Michigan
Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film Davis, Darrell William Columbia University Press
Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context McDonald, Keiko I. University of Hawaii Press
Revival van de Japanse Film Haute, Luk van Amsterdam University Press, Salome
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime Haute, Luk van University of Minnesota Press
Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade Clements, Jonathan Titan Books
Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom Miyao, Daisuke Duke University Press
Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Junichiro and “Oriental” Aesthetics LaMarre, Thomas Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii Ruh, Brian Palgrave Macmillan
Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook Galloway, Patrick Stone Bridge Press
Anime Encyclopedia, The McCarthy, Helen; Clements, Jonathan Stone Bridge Press
Anime Encyclopedia: Revised & Expanded Edition, The McCarthy, Helen; Clements, Jonathan Stone Bridge Press
Benshi: Japanese Silent Film Narrators, The Matsuda, Shunsui Urban Connections
Cinema of Japan and Korea, The Matsuda, Shunsui Wallflower Press
Dorama Encyclopedia, The Clements, Jonathan; Tamamuro, Motoko Stone Bridge Press
Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear, The White, Jerry Stone Bridge Press
Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan, The Cazdyn, Eric Duke University Press
Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years’ War, 1931-45, The High, Peter B. University of Wisconsin Press
Japan Journals, The Richie, Donald Stone Bridge Press
Japanese Film: Art and Industry, The Richie, Donald; Anderson, Joseph L. Princeton University Press
Ring Companion, The Meikle, Denis Titan Books
Samurai Film, The Silver, Alain The Overlook Press
Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films, The Schilling, Mark Stone Bridge Press
To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema Burch, Noël Motion Pictures Reprint Series, University of Michigan
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture Brown, Steven T. Palgrave Macmillan
Tokyoscope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion Macias, Patrick Cadence Books
Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan Sorgenfrei, Carol Fisher University of Hawaii Press
Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa Nogami, Teruyo Stone Bridge Press
Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement Bernardi, Joanne Wayne State University Press