"Morita
Yoshimitsu’s Family Game." Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts. Eds. Alastair Phillips and Julian
Stringer. Routledge, 2007.
An analysis of
Morita’s film in relation to its contemporary context, especially discussions
of postmodernism.
"Wrestling
with Godzilla: Manga Monsters, Puroresu and the National Body." In
Godzilla’s Footsteps.
Eds. William Tsutsui and Michiko Ito. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp.
63-81.
Critiques the view that
the 1960s Godzilla is but kiddie fare by linking the Big Lizard with Rikidozan,
Sugiura Shigeru and national irreverency.
"Nation,
Citizenship and Cinema." A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan. Ed. Jennifer Robertson. Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishers, 2005. Pp. 400-414.
An introduction to
theories of the nation in Japan, using the example of film to complicated
notions of a “national cinema.”
"From
the National Gaze to Multiple Gazes: Representations of Okinawa in Recent
Japanese Cinema." Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese
and American Power.
Eds. Laura Hein and Mark Selden. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield , 2003. Pp.
273-307.
Analyses a range of films
from Sayonara Nippon and
Free and Easy 11, to
works by Sai Yoichi, Kitano Takeshi and Takamine Go.
”Aoyama
Shinji.“ Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers. Ed. Yvonne Tasker. London: Routledge, 2002. Pp.
16-25.
An analysis of the
director’s work up until Eureka.
"The
Industrial Ichikawa: Ichikawa Kon after 1976." Kon Ichikawa. Ed. James Quandt. Ontario:
Cinematheque Ontario, 2001. Pp. 385-397.
Uses Ichikawa’s later
works to discuss problems in the Japanese film industry from the 1970s to the
1990s.
"The
Word Before the Image: Criticism, the Screenplay, and the Regulation of Meaning
in Prewar Japanese Film Culture." Word and Image in Japanese Cinema. Eds. Carole Cavanaugh and Dennis
Washburn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 3-35.
Considers how Japanese
filmmakers and critics tried to contain the problem of the image—and its
potential proliferation of meaning—by tying it to the word.
"Consuming
Asia, Consuming Japan: The New Neonationalist Revisionism in Japan." Censoring
History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States. Eds. Mark Selden and Laura Hein.
Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Pp. 74-95.
An analysis of recent neo-nationalist cultural
trends, focusing particular on a “consumer nationalism” evident in such films
as Iwai Shunji’s Swallowtail
Butterfly.