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Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s
Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s
Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s is Collaborative Cataloging Japan’s (CCJ) first publication project. Aimed at English-language readers with a serious interest in Japanese film experiments of the 1960s, the book is intended to make important texts more widely available and make this field more accessible to interested audiences. This project accompanies the research on Japanese Expanded Cinema that CCJ and collaborators have been engaged with since 2016. The initiative first received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation through a Curatorial Fellowships grant, thanks to which CCJ conducted numerous interviews, archival research, film collection surveys, digitization of films, and commissioning of new essays.
The full version of the introductory essays by Ross and Hirasawa are available for online reading on Archive Book’s website.
Intermedia and Expanded Cinema, both as critical approach and artistic practice, left an indelible mark in a period of Japanese art history that is broadly considered to be one of its most dynamic moments in the wake of its postwar reemergence.
Despite the burgeoning interest in academic and curatorial circles in this segment of Japanese art history, the paucity of readily available material in a language other that Japanese has meant the local context, particularly the ways in which the terms were critically debated, was relatively neglected.
Rather than assuming the interpretations of the terms were the same as their counterparts abroad, we decided to commission translations of a selection of key texts that we felt were instrumental in shaping the specific discourse around these terms.
Through these translations, our hope is that Japanese debates on intermedia can contribute to international discourse, and that works of Japanese Expanded cinema can be preserved, reenacted and analyzed with these discussions in mind.
Published by Archive Books Berlin
Produced by Collaborative Cataloging Japan
With contributions by Go Hirasawa, Ann Adachi-Tasch, Julian Ross, Adachi Masao, Iimura Takahiko, Ishiko Junzō, Ishizaki Kōichirō, Jōnouchi Matoharu, Manabe Hiroshi, Matsuda Masao (a.k.a. Hirosawa Mina), Miyai Rikurō, Ōe Masanori, Satō Jūshin (Shigechika), Tone Yasunao.
Edited by Ann Adachi-Tasch, Go Hirasawa, Julian Ross
Tranlsated by Yuzo Sakuramoto, Colin Smith
Design by Julie Högner, Archive Appendix
Softcover, English, 222 pages
ISBN 978-3-948212-29-2