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Complaint Review: Alon Mitchell
Alon Mitchell2933 Linden St. Oakland, California United States of America
Alon Mitchell Photographer/Videographer Rip me off for $1000.00 for Comcast Spotlight commercial airtime Oakland, California
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This man was trying to convince me to give him $2000.00 for two months advertising, I refused to do so but agreed to give him $1000.00 for 1 month advertising in Oct 2012.
Two weeks later, I was contacted by Comcast Spotlight that the credit card used for my commercial was declined in the amount of $250.00 for one week advertising. I was confused because Alon was paid in cash ($1,000.00) via PayPal. After countless on emails and phone calls to Alon, I was able to receive one more week advertising in Dec 2012.
The money spent was a complete bust as advertising needs to be consistent. This man has stole $1000.00 from me with never an intent to provide promise service. Now I'm out of $1000 and a bill form Comcast Spotlight of $402.00 for declined credit card payments. Alon claims he films, rent Party Buses and works for FEMA when needed. This man is a thief and should never be hired for a job especially with our government nor services for his so-called cheap Comcast Spotlight advertising for small businesses.
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Slegegang, Erik and Graziano - I am always delighted that my views via my camera delight you so. Thanks for the YS Erik.
Eugenevs and eziozerziani, welcome to my humble gallery. Great to see new visitors here. Glad that you like this shot.
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Very nice, here I also like the frame.
Nice shot . Greetings , Barbaros
Blau, apologies for not seeing this earlier. I do appreciate your comment and visit even at this late date.
Barbaros, thank you again for your visits here and appreciation of this photo.
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Gold Crown Resort Poor woman ripped off with no money left Orlando Florida Internet
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We do hope you will reconsider and allow Gold Crown Resort to continue to provide the high quality destinations and customer service you initially found so appealing.
There are also a few issues I would like to address in regards to your letter:
1. Gold Crown Resort does not market to the general public, but contracts with companies to provide services under affiliate agreement.
2. Gold Crown Resort is not in receipt of any funds which were paid to the affiliate you signed with (Global Resorts Network).
3. All funds paid for the membership were paid directly to Global Resorts Network.
4. Because the funds were paid to the affiliate directly and not to Gold Crown, any communication regarding cancellation MUST take place between yourself and the company that you purchased from (Global Resorts Network).
We would certainly be more than happy to pass this information along to Global Resorts Network, but again you will need to address all future correspondence regarding cancellation to them directly. I have taken the liberty of including their contact information below:
We sincerely thank you for your understanding, and again do hope that you reconsider your decision.
Best Regards
Derek Jordan
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Gold Crown Resort
There was no way,to get my money back for a product that I never even used (can't afford to)
When I read the ripoff report it gave me hope. Can anyone help me to get my money back in full?
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|This is an area I climbed at many years ago in the early nineties. I first toproped this line "Roof Rack" in probably 1992 and within that next year I came back to lead it also. I remember thinking it was 5.9+/10.a and certainly remember that distinct roof crack! I never did give it a name, because I was surely convinced that someone had climbed this obvious line before I did (probably in the '60s, '70s, and '80s). Good to see there is more lines to climb up there now!


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hard lines you lot still a yo yo team,better off supporting a proper west country team up plymouth, at leased consitances,see you next season,and get hammered ardent pafc supporterSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
another moronic post, get a life you very sad man, bristol city have done very well this year, you may have beat us once, but we did a lot better than you did
it was a good first season
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Those who choose to take the #$%$ of another teams failure, do so because they have nowt to shout about on the home front.
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Put it in the kitchen, she said. It will keep flies at bay! So, we grabbed a bunch and found the perfect opportunity to test its effectiveness when we brought home a stem of fresh dates. Hung by the window to ripen, the dates soon attracted a small cloud of fruit flies. We tucked a few sprigs of rue between the fruits and, lo and behold, the flies quickly lost interest. In fact, they disappeared altogether. (One might even say they rued the day they entered our kitchen!)
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I noticed two letters in Wednesday's paper responding to one of my columns, and I wanted to share these thoughts with my critics.
Neil Couch and Jim McManus take exception to my opinion, and I would just like to say that that is really all right. I even encourage them to continue. What I felt from them was both dislike and disagreement.
I tend to agree with Rudy Schmidt's statement in Friday's Lancaster News that "perception is subjective truth, not objective truth."
I do not propose to speak for Police Chief Harlean Carter when she was quoted as saying that "perception is reality." Yet, I inferred her statement to mean that what one perceives becomes reality to him or her even though this perception may – or may not be – based on objective truth. If my inference of her meaning is correct, then I also agree with her.
I would like to thank Sgt. Jeremy Lear with the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, who was called to my home for a situation. All I can say is you are amazing, and I am grateful for you! Thank you for taking the time to listen and carefully make your decision for the wellbeing of the child.
I will forever say God sent the right sergeant to my house that day. Sgt. Lear, you have a new friend.
The morality of all the media died years ago. Our media was hijacked by far-left liberal progressives. The only good news is most of them will be history with the invention of the internet.
Outlets like the New York Times are failing financially. They like all the rest will implode on themselves. You can only favor one side for so long. Go look at MSNBC and CNN's ratings. At the bottom.
We were sad to hear about last week's passing of Harry Briggs Jr.
In the late 1940s, when Harry was in elementary school in Clarendon County, his parents, Harry Briggs Sr. and Eliza Gamble Briggs, thought it was unfair that Harry Jr. and the other black children didn't have a school bus like the white children did. So Harry Sr. and Eliza joined with other black parents and brought a lawsuit, represented by Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and local lawyer Harold Boulware.
In a letter to the editor last Friday, Paul Lloret said that Donald Trump's message resonates with a large number of Americans, so we shouldn't be upset over his behavior problems and should "consider the source" of the criticism.
While the resonating part may be true, I wholeheartedly disagree with the second bit.
Criticism of Trump's behavior isn't coming only from other politicians. It's coming from your neighbors as well.
Editor's note: This letter responds to L. Brooks Walker's Sunday column headlined "Listen as Clinton parses words on Comey's e-mail testimony."
As I read yet another article by L. Brooks Walker in the Aug. 14 edition of The Lancaster News, I begin to wonder is he truly a guest columnist – it seems as though he writes a column per week – a right wing nut with too much time on his hands, or simply someone with an ax to grind with Democrats and Hillary.
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GateHouse Media is about to make history — figuratively and literally — in Henry County.
For what we believe is a first, a pictorial history book of Henry County and the surrounding area will be published by the company which owns the Kewanee Star Courier, Galva News, Cambridge Chronicle, Geneseo Republic, Henry County Advertiser and Orion Gazette — basically all of the newspapers and advertisers published in Henry County.
We have all been in the same "family" for a number of years now, and it has been to everyone's benefit, especially our readers, to be working together instead of competing against each other.
Publication of this book will probably be the biggest project we have undertaken to date as a close-knit confederation of journalists.
Several of our newspapers have published local pictorial histories in the past. The Star Courier has produced two. The second, a "looking back" book of old photos, was published in 2004 in conjunction with Kewanee's 150th anniversary.
The first pictorial we published in the early '90s, with a drawing of the old Kewanee city hall by Bob Tellier on the cover, sold out years ago. Copies are no longer available and they are now much sought-after items at auctions and yard sales.
Publisher Dee Evans tells me the Orion Gazette has also put out a commemorative community anniversary book in the past and the Geneseo Republic has published a "looking back" photo book, but just covering that community. There may have been others. Several years ago the Henry County Genealogical Society solicited, compiled and printed an excellent book of submitted family histories and photos but most of it was text.
The book we are planning will be entirely of photos.
Where will the photos come from? You!
We're putting out a call for submitted pictures. We'll take them up to the early 1960s (now 50 years ago), but prefer older material — the older the better.
I was heavily involved in gathering material for our first book and was amazed at how people trusted us with their valued family photos, but that's what makes these books so special. There are historical museums in Kewanee, Galva, Geneseo and Bishop Hill. Collectively, they probably have thousands of old black and white photos in their files which could quickly fill a dozen books, but many are photos we are familiar with. Photos of Windmont Park, trolley cars, and the old Star Courier building are abundant at the Robert and Marcella Richards Museum, but an old photo from grandma's attic no one outside your family has ever seen, is much more interesting and makes a better book for everyone.
We are looking for photos from our collective readership areas, which covers all of Henry County, but we don't want to exclude our readers in bordering counties such as Stark, Knox, western Bureau and maybe a little of Whiteside.
Page 2 of 2 - Photos should be accompanied with a brief description — about a paragraph in length — telling what you know about the picture — who's in it, when it was taken and where, anything that will help people understand what they're seeing.
Here's how it works. If you have photographs you would like considered for inclusion in the 2012 GateHouse pictorial history, bring them to either the Star Courier at the corner of Main Street and Central Boulevard on the four-lane in Kewanee, or the Henry County Advertizer office, just west of the downtown State Street intersection at 108 W. First St. in Geneseo. Those are the two locations where we can scan photos while you wait, and return them without having to make a return trip. Photos and accompanying information may also be e-mailed to us at email@example.com.
We prefer to not be caretakers of any old photos for any longer than is necessary and therefore prefer they not be sent by mail.
Pictures and information must be submitted by May 1 to be considered.
We anticipate that the hardback book will be available for purchase in August.
So, before the weather gets nice enough to spend time outdoors, go through that box of old family photos or check out the attic and let's see what we can come up with. I pulled a 1910 photo of Grandpa Johnson and the hired man shocking oats which I've included with the column to get us started.
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West Brom coach Steve Clarke left out leading scorer Shane Long against his former club and saw his replacement Romelu Lukaku net the goal to earn a 1-0 victory over Reading at The Hawthorns.
But it needed the second-half introduction of Long to tee up the winner for on-loan Chelsea striker Lukaku.
James Morrison impressed in midfield and Lukaku posed problems throughout while West Brom keeper Ben Foster was untroubled throughout the game.
Albion started brightly and Reading defender Chris Gunter had to react quickly to cut out Lukaku's flick-on.
Lukaku skipped past the challenge of Kaspars Gorkss and drilled a dangerous low ball across the box but Danny Guthrie cleared.
Chris Brunt produced the first serious attempt on goal with Royals keeper Alex McCarthy turning his drive around the post.
Lukaku continued to pose problems and McCarthy finger-tipped away a floated cross. The nearest either side came to scoring in the first half came at the end when Albion defender Jonas Olsson's header hit the angle of bar and post.
Albion continued on the offensive after the break with Zoltan Gera having a shot charged down.
West Brom fans chanted Long's name before he was introduced after 65 minutes - and six minutes later he had played his part in the winner.
Substitute Graham Dorrans floated a ball into the box which was knocked by back by Long to Lukaku who steadied himself before driving a low shot past the dive of McCarthy and the winning goal.
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A mosque and cemetery have been announced for Newton County, igniting a firestorm in our community this week.
This summer has been a difficult one for Newton County. Crime has increased, temperatures have been high and taxes were raised.
This feels like a huge week for local government in our community, as well as our citizenry.
After a long wait and anxious anticipation, the time has finally come. It is what many have worked very hard towards. It is long overdue ...
The start of school is right around the corner and children will be returning to a setting of education and friendship.
This week's editorial was one of the most difficult we have written.
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We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill
The beautiful spring weather has made me reflect on the springtimes of my childhood.
We are always pleased when any organization takes on a major fund raising goal to help a child.
That is why we are more than pleased with the actions of the Social Circle Rotary Club.
In Sunday's paper, reporter Amber Pittman wrote an excellent but very scary story detailing activities some of our teens and adolescents are involved in right now in our community.
The piece called "Deadly Games" explained what chocking, sexting and cyber-bullying mean to our young children.
As we have stated in the past, we are fortunate to have a well run library here in Newton County. We are fortunate, also, to have a very talented executive to run that library.
We recognize the fact that the library, like the other agencies in our county, has had to tighten its belt to meet budget deficits. One of the cost-cutting measures proposed by Greg Heid, the director of the Newton County Library, was to close on Saturday.
The YMCA, which was founded in England in 1844 by a group of evangelicals who wanted to assist the families and children suffering because of the sprawl created by the Industrial Revolution, started in this country in 1851. Since then the Y has grown into an organization that assists families from babies to grandparents.
Newton County is fortunate to have an active Y, which is located on Newton Drive in Covington. Our local Y provides programs for kids that include swimming, gymnastics, flag football, soccer and basketball.
The city of Social Circle has some beautiful older buildings and homes that reflect our Southern heritage.
The city has been renovating one of these old homes, originally built in the 1840s, in order to establish a new city hall.
We got jolted out of our malaise as we received an announcement from Chris Smith, co-owner of Newton Electric Supply, telling us that he has thrown his hat into the ring for the position of Covington city councilman.
After a brief breather from the longest national election campaign ever, we were taken aback by Mr. Smith's early announcement. For sure it's been cold enough the last few days to be election time, but the old calendar says it's Easter week.
The citizens of Newton County never cease to amaze us.
We have done editorials in the past encouraging people and groups to do what they can do during these economic time to help their neighbors.
Until recently, driving through the quaint town of Porterdale was the equivalent of driving in the Grand Prix to some drivers.
It is fortunate no one has been killed.
This past week we carried a story on our front page that described how a step-father took a belt to his teenage daughter; this action was and is inexcusable.
We believe that a parent has a right to discipline his or her child in a manner that works for the family, but this does not include belts and sticks or any other form of discipline that can cause bodily injury to a child.
We support the county's effort to tighten its belt during this current fiscal crisis.
We appreciate the efforts of every manager and employee who has come up with cost-saving measures to help county employees keep their jobs or not have their earnings cut.
We are more than pleased to see that teacher Sara Vinson, of the Covington Montessori School, has taken the time to teach her students the value of not only learning about the great jobs that non-profits do in our community, but also about the added value of learning how to help support them.
Mrs. Vinson's class spent time talking with Tamara Richardson, who is the director of the Newton Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta.
Taxes and increased fines are highlights of last week's legislative talks in Congress as well as the Georgia General Assembly.
Tobacco users across the country will now have to offer a few more silver coins for every pack or carton they buy as federal lawmakers are increasing tobacco taxes to help fund children's healthcare initiatives across the country.
Sen. John Douglas promised last year that he would have legislation passed that would help protect school children from sexual predators.
He sponsored Senate Bill No. 14, which would prohibit anyone who is on a national or state sex offender registry from serving on local school boards.
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I am still amazed by those who have the time to maintain a blog. I don't, so the best I can offer here is occasional short bits of news and observations.
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The Toy Film Museum in Kyoto おもちゃ映画ミュージアム
The other week I had to travel to the Kansai area on business and research. I used the opportunity to visit the newly opened Toy Film Museum in the Mibu area of Kyoto.
What are toy films? They have usually been referred to in Japanese as "omocha eiga" (おもちゃ映画) or "gangu eiga" (玩具映画), and have denoted modes of watching cinema in the home in the early years of the medium. While we are familiar with small gauge films (kogata eiga 小型映画) like 8mm—or the 9.5mm Pathé Baby format popular in the prewar—that came to be defined as the mode for home movies, the motion pictures did not necessarily enter the home in such formats. Much larger gauges—including 35mm film—were actually common as a home movie system confined to projection. You might be surprised at that if you know of the huge projectors that exist (or existed) in theaters for 35mm projection, but in fact from the 1910s, there were small tin 35mm projectors produced in Europe and North America, the first working off of oil lamps, the later ones off of electric light, that could be used at home. With small spools of film and cranked by hand, they could present films a few minutes long. The picture on the left is of a foreign-made projector with the film loaded that is on display at the Museum.
The Japanese Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies 日本映画研究へのガイドブック
The Japanese version of the Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies that Markus Nornes and I produced back in 2009 has just been published by Yumani Shobo. This is not just a translation of our guide to archives, reference books, and websites important to the study of Japanese film, but a major update of the Guide. Not only have a few errors been corrected or addresses or URLs updated, but we've added or revised quite a number of entries, taking into account new archives and books as well as changing circumstances since 2009. Those of you who have used the English version and can read Japanese should get this version in order to have the most up-to-date information. Markus and I are thinking about putting out a revised English version—a plan we've had since the original book—but it may take some time before that is out.
I have not always had good luck with translations. The Japanese translation of Visions of Japanese Modernity has been in process for nearly fifteen years (starting even before California published it), and the translation of Kitano Takeshi has been in the works for about seven years. But I was fortunate this time. Not only did the translation not take too long, but we were fortunate that Dogase Masato supervised the translation, working with Otake Mizuho, Murakami Satoru, and Sawa Shigehito. They did a splendid job. The staff at Yumani also worked hard, checking all the phone numbers and addresses, and even allowing additions up until the last moment. It was a pleasure working with everyone.
War and Nationalism in Recent Japanese Cinema: Yamato and Divided Lenses
Way back in December 2008, I took part in an excellent conference at Stanford on war and memory in East Asian cinema. The talk I delivered was on Yamato (Otokotachi no Yamato, 2005), Sato Jun'ya's box office hit that was produced by the maverick Kadokawa Haruki about the ill-fated battleship Yamato. Taking into consideration not only the long history of films on the Yamato, but also some contemporary kamikaze war films, I argued that the film is not just reworking wartime memory for the sake present-day historical revisionism towards WWII, but that it is utilizing its own depiction of violence to create a kind of "vicarious trauma" whose main effect is a forgetting of the postwar and its own traumatic history of the Cold War.
The plan even then was to turn the conference into an anthology, but for various reasons, the plan dragged on. When it was clear the anthology was not going to appear very soon, I got permission to publish a very abridged version of my piece in Japan Focus under the title, "War and Nationalism in Yamato: Trauma and Forgetting the Postwar." It then took about another five years for the anthology to come out, but it finally has, and it looks great. Here's the reference for my piece:
Donald Richie and Transnational Japanese Cinema
Donald Richie, one of the most important introducers of Japan and its cinema, passed away about this time three years ago. The following July, Iwamoto Kenji hosted a symposium on Donald at Waseda University. I talked about the famous Japanese film history he produced with Joseph Anderson, The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. While noting its problems, especially its orientalism and Cold War worldview, I also pointed out how its own stance of being other to Japanese film culture enabled it to provide a depiction of that culture, especially of such seemingly innocuous phenomena as the state of an average movie theater, that Japanese sources could not offer. In the end, I argued that, while Richie himself was not innocent of othering Japan, his decision to himself remain other to Japan—for instance, refusing to assimilate—was itself often productive.
That essay, plus some others presented that day, have been combined with many other articles (most composed as part of a series of workshops Iwamoto was holding), to create the anthology:
Aoyama Shinji's "Nouvelle Vague Manifesto" and Japanese Film Theory
An English translation I did of one of the Japanese film director Aoyama Shinji's major writings on film, "Nouvelle Vague Manifesto; or, How I Became a Disciple of Philippe Garrel," has finally appeared in print in the sixth issue of LOLA, the online film journal edited by Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu.
- Aoyama Shinji, "Nouvelle Vague Manifesto; or, How I Became a Disciple of Philippe Garrel," LOLA 6 (December 2015).
The article is accompanied by a short introduction I penned that explains the manifesto's basic points and its historical place.
- Aaron Gerow, "Introduction to 'Nouvelle Vague Manifesto,'" LOLA 6 (December 2015).
I want to thank Aoyama for not only allowing me to publish this, but also for helping me find the citations for the many quotations in the piece. I also need to thank Adrian and Girish for publishing this. I did the translation years ago—and Adrian expressed interest in it years ago—so I apologize for the delay, even if some of the time taken was necessary.
Aoyama's manifesto was published in 1997, right when he debuted as a director, and represents his thoughts on his positionality and future direction. While the manifesto never became the defining document of an organized film movement, I argue that it helps us understand not only Aoyama's cinema, but also an in certain ways representative intervention in the cinema world at the time. As such, it can help us comprehend one definition of a politics of film style (the use of the long take, the rejection of image as representation, etc.) and how that relates to the politics of post Cold War Japan (the problem of the individual, the problem of the Other), especially in contrast to the political modernism of the 1960s New Wave. Along with Aoyama's later essay, "The Geography of Cinema" (Eiga no chirigaku), published in his essay collection Ware eiga o hakkenseri (Seidosha, 2001), the manifesto is one of the major theoretical contributions of the time. I have used it not only in my article on Aoyama in Yvonne Tasker's Fifty Contemporary Film Directors (Routledge, 2010), but also in my book on Kitano Takeshi.
Obayashi Nobuhiko Retrospective at the Japan Society
Our Yale event with the great director Obayashi Nobuhiko ended with considerable success. We can't get the crowds of New York or Boston, but we had some deep discussions about such topics ad Ozu's editing, 3.11, and experimental film. Obayashi-kantoku is very much the 1960s gentleman, his wife and producer Kyoko the kindest of ladies, and their daughter Chigumi a pillar of support.
We had Obayashi and his family over to our house for dinner while they were here. There were lots of entertaining stories (including one about Kadokawa Haruki) and a bit of wisdom, but I could also see how he could be a great teacher or mentor. My son showed him the film he made in class in the spring. Not just focusing on how good the film was or not, Obayashi told him that amateur films are as equally cinema as professional films. The crucial thing is to know--and positively use--one's limitations and to have control over the film, giving it unity. Thus if my son had to play 5 or 6 parts out of necessity, the important thing is for the film to be conscious of that and use it to its benefit. If an amateur film does that, it is just as much cinema as any professional film is. Obayashi then used my son's film as example in the talk session the next day.
A Movie: The Cinema of Obayashi Nobuhiko — at Yale
A Movie: The Cinema of Obayashi Nobuhiko
One of the last major Japanese directors active since the 1960s, Obayashi Nobuhiko is doing a four-city tour of the East Coast, with Yale as the first stop. Little known outside of Japan, he gained a following in America with the DVD release of his debut feature film House, but our Yale event will present his unknown sides through screenings of three of his films and separate informal talk sessions. A pioneer of experimental film in Japan, Obayashi continued to stun audiences with his stylistic flourishes even as he became one of the hit-makers if the 1980s and 1990s. A wonderful study in contrast, he combined pop culture with literary sensibility, visual innovation with a love for classical Japanese film, and nostalgia with a celebration of cinematic artifice, a stance evident in the words "A Movie" he attaches to many of his films.
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I Are You, You Am Me – "Tenkōsei" [a.k.a. Exchange Student] (Japan, 1982) 112 min., 35 mm
Complexe (Japan, 1964) 14 min., 16 mm
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The Rocking Horsemen – "Seishun dendekedekedeke" (Japan, 1992) 135 min., 35 mm
Director Ōbayashi Nobuhiko
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The Pamphlet: Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film
As I mentioned before, we at Yale have done a couple of Japanese film series in collaboration with the National Film Center of the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. One of the conditions of the collaboration is that we produce something physical as a record of the event. We did that with our first series, The Sword and The Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960 (which took place in January and February 2012), and then used that experience to create an even longer pamphlet for our second series with the NFC: Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931-1969.
It was again a wonderful project for the grad students doing East Asian film and media at Yale, who helped translate articles, write commentaries on the films being shown, and layout and edit the pamphlet. Rea Amit, Samuel Malissa, Noriko Morisue, Hsin-Huan Peng, Stephen Poland, Grace Ting, Takuya Tsunoda, Justine Wiesinger, and Young Yi all did splendid work.
We also had our symposium guests, Yomota Inuhiko, Jō Ōsawa, and Phil Kaffen, compose original and quite stimulating articles for the pamphlet. I added an introduction.
Shinozaki Makoto's Sharing and Cinema after 3.11
As I have argued many times before (for instance, in my writings on Kitano Takeshi, on Aoyama Shinji, or for the Japan Foundation), one of central problematics of Japanese cinema of the last two decades has been how to represent the other. In some cases, this has involved representing Japan's others, especially minorities within the country, but on a more basic level, this has extended to questioning the ability of cinema to represent other individuals. This, I argue, has led many filmmakers of the 1990s to pursue a "detached style" that refrained from using close ups or analytical editing as means of enabling spectators to "know" what characters are thinking and feeling.
This problematic has seemingly declined in importance as new filmmakers have appeared and television—which in Japan has long offered pre-digested visions of the world, as Abe Kasho has argued in Beat Takeshi vs. Kitano Takeshi—has come to dominate film production. But the triple disaster of March 11, 2011, may have revived it in the form of the question of how to understand those who did and still suffer.
The Sword and The Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960
In the past few years, we at Yale have done a couple of Japanese film series in collaboration with the National Film Center of the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. One of the conditions of the collaboration is that we produce something physical as a record of the event. So even though we did not include it in the budget for our first series, The Sword and The Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960 (which took place in January and February 2012), we created a quite nice pamphlet on our own.
It was a great project for the grad students doing Japanese film at Yale, who helped translate articles, write commentaries on the films being shown, and layout and edit the pamphlet. Rea Amit, Ryan Cook, Samuel Good, Samuel Malissa, Stephen Poland, Grace Ting, and Takuya Tsunoda all did great work.
We also had our symposium guests, David Desser and Itakura Fumiaki, pen original and quite stimulating articles for the pamphlet and I added an introduction.
The result is actually a quite good resource on Japanese period films (chanbara or samurai movies), especially given the lack of time and the make-shift nature of the project.
Colonial Era Korean Cinema
Although my specialty is Japanese cinema, I teach and do research in many other fields, such as animation, television, comic books, or the Western. I also work on other Asian cinemas, but have not had much of an occasion to publish on them.
I am thus glad to report that I've finally published my first article on Korean cinema: a piece entitled "Colonial Era Korean Cinema and the Problem of Internalization" in the journal Trans-Humanities, published by Ewha Womens University (number 20 [volume 8, number 1]: pp. 27–46). The origins of this piece are in a talk I gave as part of a panel discussion called "Korea's Rediscovered Colonial Films" at Harvard in December 2010, a great session organized by Carter Eckert that also featured John Dower, Michael Robinson, and Franziska Seraphim. I am thankful to Prof. Eckert for giving me the opportunity to talk about Korean film, as well as to Ewha, which let me expand on that talk for the conference "Korean Literature, Art, and Film from 1910 to 1945" held at Ewha in July 2014. Ewha invited us to submit to their journal, which I did, in part to support the growing relationship between Ewha and Yale. My colleague, John Treat, who helped organize the conference, also has a piece in the same issue: "Im Hwa Before and After Japan."
Japanese Film Industry Statistics for 2014
Eiren (the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan) has again released the official statistics for the film industry in 2014. The Japanese summary is here; for English, you have to scroll down to the bottom of this table for the 2014 figures. Click here to see the box office leaders in English.
Things have improved slightly from 2014. The total BO rose 6.6%, and total attendance 3.4%. The market share for Japanese films went down from 60.6% to 58.3%, largely due to the immense success of Frozen (which pulled in 25.8 billion yen), but this is the seventh consecutive year the domestic films have beat the foreign ones. The number of screens increased slightly to 3364, with the percentage of those screens being in multiplexes reaching a record 86.5% (single screen theaters, such as mini-theaters, are really dying out). The average ticket price rose to 1246 yen, the highest amount ever (it had not risen over 1260 since 2010). Perhaps Abe's inflationary policies are reaching the movie theaters.
Lone Wolves & Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931-1969
I'm very glad to announce the start of Yale's second collaboration with the National Film Center in Tokyo: the film series "Lone Wolves & Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931-1969." Our first collaboration in 2012, "The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960," was actually the first time the NFC collaborated with a foreign university, and was a great success.
The new series, co-sponsored between the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale and the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, will present ten masterworks of Japanese gangster film, detective cinema, and Japanese noir, in subtitled archive prints that have rarely been seen abroad. The series will conclude with a symposium featuring an international panel of experts on Japanese crime film, and a world premiere screening of a newly struck English subtitled print of the classic gangster melodrama, Chutaro of Banba (Mabuta no Haha). The series kicks off on January 22, 2015, with the film Stray Dog, and concludes on February 15 with the world premiere and closing symposium.
The Net, Copyright, and Japanese Cinema and Anime History
One of the problems for those of us interested in Japanese films or anime is access. Only a fraction of what was produced—even if it still exits in celluloid form—is readily available on DVD or some other form. Some of my students still don't understand that. Especially the young ones interested in American film think that everything is available either on DVD or on Netflix, when it is not, even in the case of the USA. Films from certain nations are more available, but that only enhances the illusion that those countries are the core of film history. Access is crucial not only for scholars, but for narrating the world heritage of film history.
In the case of Japan, it doesn't help that Japanese archives are expensive, hard to use, and themselves not easily accessible. Even professional scholars have a hard time viewing prints of films that definitely exist. (For more on that, check out our Research Guide.)
So I am sure many of us are thrilled when we see some rare Japanese film or anime uploaded on YouTube or some other site. We now have access! But for a long time I have warned my students about the backside of this illusion of access, a problem that has recently hit home.
On Wildgrounds and on Film Theory and Criticism
As I mentioned regarding my interview on the MacMillan Report, I am rather embarrassed appearing on camera. But I will do it when asked. I was surprised and honored when Michael Stern over at Wildgrounds asked to do a video interview while I was in Paris for the Kawabata Yasunari symposium. He came to both the symposium and to my hotel, and it was at the latter that we talked for over an hour. Somehow he edited that down to about four minutes, in quite a professional manner, focusing on my discussion of the importance of Japanese film theory, particularly with regard to Hasumi Shigehiko, and the current state of Japanese film criticism, especially how its moribund condition may bode poorly for the future of Japanese cinema.
Kawabata Yasunari on Cinema
This coming week I will be attending an international conference in Paris on the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Kawabata Yasunari. Entitled "Relire Kawabata au 21e siècle - modernisme et japonisme au-delà des mythes," it will take place on September 17 and 18, 2014, at the Maison de la culture du Japon (for the first day) and the Université Paris Diderot (on the second day). It will feature some of the top literature scholars in Japan, Europe, and the United States, including Michael Bourdaghs, Kensuke Kono, Hirokazu Toeda, Hirofumi Wada, Yuko Brunet, Tomi Suzuki, and Cécile Sakai (who is the main organizer). The novelist Tawada Yoko will give a talk on the evening of the first day. Click here for the program (in French).
My own interest in Kawabata is rather long held. One of my first published articles, "Celluloid Masks: The Cinematic Image and the Image of Japan" (in Iris 16 [Spring 1993]: 23-36), considered how Kawabata's and Tanazaki Jun'ichiro's literary representations of cinema connected to their constructions of Japan. And of course my second book, A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan, is about the film Kawabata was individually involved in making.
Nuclear Nation Twice and Cinema after 3.11
This week and next week I will be participating in two events in Tokyo centered on films about the disasters on March 11, 2011, both of which—by chance—happen to feature screenings of the documentary Nuclear Nation (Futaba kara toku hanarete) and a discussion with the director Funahashi Atsushi.
The first will take place on July 18 at Josai University, and will include a panel discussion with me, Hayashi Chiaki, Kitano Keisuke, Abé Mark Nornes, Mark Roberts, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, and Akira Mizuta-Lippit on the issue of cinema after 3.11 Details can be found here.
The second will take place on the following Friday, July 25, at Sophia University. That will focus more on the film and will feature a talk after the screening between me and Funahashi-san. Details are available on this pdf.
There are a lot of films being made on 3.11—though many with some difficulties—which are increasingly becoming the subject of academic studies.
Ewha-Yale Conference: "Korean Literature, Art, and Film from 1910 to 1945"
This weekend I will be taking part in a conference coordinated by Ewha Women's University in South Korea and Yale University. Entitled "Korean Literature, Art, and Film from 1910 to 1945" that is being held at Ewha. A number of Yale and Ewha faculty will be taking part, as well as a former student of mine, Naoki Yamamoto, who is at the University of California, Santa Barbara. While I am not an expert on Korean cinema, I hope in my paper, "Colonial Era Korean Cinema and the Problem of Internalization," to pose some questions about the relation of film form to colonial subjectivity. Here is the abstract of my talk:
The internalization of the values of the colonizers in the mind of the colonized—the colonization of the mind—can be as crucial to the perpetuation of colonialism as the violence of legal or military force. I would like to analyze some colonial era films that I think pose some interesting questions about the problem of internalization during Japan's colonization of Korea. One could see in films like Military Train (1938) or Volunteer (1941) examples of characters internalizing the voices or visions of Japanese empire. Yet I wonder if these films do not also show us complications in these narratives of internalization. First, they may seem in part to internalize Japanese film language or style, but given fraught debates in Japan over what constituted a national cinema, Koreans were at best internalizing a cinema that Japanese authorities themselves had not internalized as sufficient to represent the modern Japanese nation. This situation may affect the entire phenomenon of internalization. What I am curious about is less whether there was internalization of Japanese cinema or not, than the shape of the "internal" within the colonial spatial dynamics: what the cinema tells us about the fraught nature of internalization itself, for instance about how the boundaries between internal and external are demarcated or rendered ambiguous, about the construction or deconstruction of internalized subjects, and the contradictions of representing internal states through external means like cinema. I wonder if we cannot hypothesize that, if colonial era Korean cinema seems often concerned with internal states, it is less because it is opening up the space that will be internalized by the colonial cinema, than it is exhibiting the cracks and contradictions in internalization itself and the problems of colonial subjectivity. I thus was particularly interested in the number of stories, such as Fisherman's Fire (1939), where gazes mattered, but which were often presented without point of view structures, or through point of view editing or eyeline matches that are considered wrong according to the rules of classical Hollywood cinema.
You can check out the schedule at the Yale CEAS site.
Film Criticism and the Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema
One of the trends in academic publishing these days seems to be an effort to provide information in a more condensed, easy-to-consume fashion. There are series like "Short Cuts" and its brief books on various topics in film (such as on New Korean Cinema). There also seems to be an explosion in publications of various handbooks or companions to this or that subject. I participated in one with my article on "Japanese Film and Television" in the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society edited by Vicky and Ted Bestor and Akiko Yamagata; and in another with the piece "Nation, Citizenship and Cinema" in A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan edited by Jennifer Robertson.
There are now a number of these handbooks or companions being prepared on Japanese cinema. I've been asked to contribute to most of them (and even approached about editing one). The first to come out may set a standard that will be difficult to surpass:
Daisuke Miyao, ed. Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780199731664.
Archival Film Festivals and Japan
A couple of years ago, I wrote a review of Tokyo FILMeX's "Nippon Modern" retrospective of Shochiku films from the 1920s and 1930s for Undercurrent, the online journal of FIPRESCI. It was a critical take on not just the retro, or even Sato Tadao's article for the catalog, but of a longer history of Japanese critics and institutions declining to think sufficiently about Japanese film history, in part by not thinking about the history of thinking about cinema in Japan. The piece was another in my efforts to think about the history and problems of film theory in Japan, which I mentioned in my last entry.
The Undercurrent article caught the eye of Alex Marlow-Mann, who asked me to expand on it for a volume in the "Film Festival Yearbook" series put out by St Andrews Film Studies. This volume, number five in the series, was on archival film festivals. My piece, entitled "Retrospective Irony: Film Festivals and Japanese Cinema History," sketches the history of retrospectives of Japanese film originating in Japan, beginning with those organized by the Kawakita Nagamasa and his wife Kashiko (the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute), and explores what kind of Japanese cinema they were constructing, especially for a foreign other. As with the Undercurrents piece, I note how these retros frequently did construct a Japan or Japanese cinema that was itself not supposed to be the object of critical theory, even when these events were held at home.


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