[Frameworks] Japanese underground cult cinema

[Jonathan Walley]

Hi Jamie,

Julian’s work on Japanese avant-garde cinema is indeed terrific - really a breakthrough for Western (non-Japanese speaking) scholars. You can find his work online pretty easily, I think.

If, on the other hand, you have films like Tetsuo in mind - directors like Shinya Tsukamoto and Sogo Ishii - you might look at some of Tony Rayns’ writings. He was writing about that work in the early ‘80s as it was emerging. I would also highly recommend: http://www.midnighteye.com/. It covers a wide variety of Japanese cinema, but really favors the cult stuff. Some of this work, especially Tsukamoto’s, had it’s origins in 8mm independent filmmaking and live performance.

I have a lot of material on this, from research I did back in the day as a grad student. It’s not immediately to hand, however. I can dig it out in the next week and send you some more info, if you remind me.

Best,
Jonathan

Dr. Jonathan Walley
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Cinema
Denison University
walleyj at denison.edu



> On Aug 18, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Jamie,
> 
> Julian Ross wrote a PhD dissertation about japanese experimental cinema, mostly related to performances and expanded cinema practices. 
> 
> http://post.at.moma.org/profiles/415-julian-ross <http://post.at.moma.org/profiles/415-julian-ross>
> 
> Maybe he can help you.
> 
> Best,
> Albert
> 
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Jamie Cleeland <ethnomite at yahoo.co.uk <mailto:ethnomite at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am looking to find academic writing on the history of Japanese underground cult cinema.  Ideally, writing that places modern Japanese underground movies in relation to a larger historic context, one that includes performance theatre.   Any pointers?
> 
> Jaime
> 
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