A Page of Madness (Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, forthcoming in Fall 2008)
My long-awaited monograph on Kinugasa Teinosuke’s 1926 silent masterpiece, an experimental work made with contributions by Nobel Prize winning novelist Kawabata Yasunari. The book features not only a detailed account of the film’s production circumstances, using documents heretofore unavailable, and a close analysis of the film, but also translations of contemporary reviews and the shooting notes for scenes missing from the existing print.
A colleague informs me that a DVD of the film will finally be released in 2009, so stay tuned for info on that as well.