Dear community,
I know it's rather late to be posting this, but I'm planning to submit a proposal for a presentation on the evolution of the style and thematic concerns from filmmakers who originated in Rikkyo University's 8mm film collective (including Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Aoyama Shinji, and others). The paper will analyze their films, their writings in film journals from the 1970s to the present, and my own interviews with a number of the filmmakers from this past May, particularly looking at continuities and differences between their earliest work, when the collective was known by the name "Parodious Unity," and made tongue-in-cheek pastiches of cinephilic references, to their emergence on the international festival circuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s as the "Rikkyō Nouvelle Vague," where their work was interpreted as reflective of Japan's economic and social anxieties in the wake of the Bubble burst and Aum Shinrikyo Sarin Gas Attack.
I'm hoping to either join or form a suitable panel, likely one focused on cinema in East Asia. Please reach out to me if you have a paper proposal with some overlapping themes that we could craft into a panel proposal.
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William Carroll
Assistant Professor
University of Alberta
wcarroll@ualberta.ca------------------------------