...Rea Amit Imamura Taihei (1911–86) is considered by many to be the first film theorist in Japan, and he is known chiefly for his two grand theories on documentary film and animation. Yet, at the same time, Imamura also developed a third, no less ambitious theory, that of “Cinema and Japanese Art...

... , no. 3914 : 86 – 87 . Gould Stephen Jay . 1985 . Ontogeny and Phylogeny . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press . Hayles N. Katherine . 1999 . How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Onformatics . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Imamura...

... as history has to be reset, made freshly legible, on the basis of new evidence and in the performative mode. Not wholly unrelated to Cook s analytic approach, Rea Amit s What Is Japanese Cinema? Imamura Taihei s Wartime Theory of Japanese Film, Tradition, and Art avoids a stationary relation of his own...

... .” Visual Studies 30 , no. 1 : 54 – 67 . Derrida Jacques , 2006 . Spectres of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International . London : Routledge . Driscoll Mark . 2002 . “ From Kino-Eye to Anime-Eye/Ai: The Filmed and the Animated in Imamura...

...” shows Harootunian’s method of writing history. As I will discuss more in detail later, it takes the form of remixing what should be regarded as “materialist film” (in this case, Shôhei Imamura’s documentary film, History of Postwar Japan...

... of a corpse? Bow- ing in the direction of Achille Mbembe, Steven Shaviro, Michael Taussig, Imamura Taihei, and Thomas Lamarre, Zahlten brings to light a media ecology in which imaginary boxer Rikiishi Toru and the postapocalyptic warlord Raoh celebrate their deaths but also in which Zahlten marks the time...

... Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years’ War, 1931–1945 . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press . Imamura Taihei . 1964 . “Kaisetsu” (“Commentary”) . In NMz 3 : 323 – 38 . Itami Mansaku . 1946 . “Senso sekininsha no mondai” (“The Problem of Who Is Responsible for the War...

..., Flinders University, Australia. Viseur-Sellers was in charge of prosecuting the state responsibility, and Dolgopol was in charge of establishing the criminal responsibility of individual perpetrators. 5 Imamura Tsuguo, who served...

... and Media in Japan,” in Re-Imaging Japanese Women, ed. Ann E. Imamura (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996), 12-45. 40 Andrew A. Painter, “The Telepresentation of Gender in Japan,” in Re-Imaging Japanese...

... on the wall. Shhei Imamura’s 1966 The Insect Woman (Nippon konchki) offers a history les- positions 22:4  Fall 2014 764 son by tracing the financial and sexual tribulations of its female protagonist...

... eiga no tanjō (The Birth of Japanese Cinema), vol. 1 of Kōza Nihon eiga (Lectures on Japanese Cinema) , edited by Shōhei Imamura ., 338 – 58 . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten . McLaughlin Brian . 2003 . “Vitalism and Emergence.” In The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870–1945 , edited...

..., 1972), to Imamura Shohei’s carnivalistic celebration of popular upheaval in his 1981 film Eijanaika. In the U.S. context one strong candidate for “speakerhood” is unques- tionably Walt Disney pictures, whose films manifest a distinct U.S. style...

.... See Imamura Shohei, Nihon eiga no tanj (The Birth of Japanese Cinema) (Tokyo: Iwan- ami Shoten, 1985), 333 – 34; Okada Hidenori, “Nihon no dokyumentarii no sodai sdaina jikkenj” (“The Great Laboratory of Japanese Documentary in Mantetsu to wa...

... in the station were generally marginalized or ignored altogether by chauvinists like the president. See Painter, “The Telerepresentation of Gender in Japan,” in Reimaging Japanese Women, ed. Anne Imamura (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University...

... Lights, Big City 201 nese Cinema 2: Completion of Silent Cinema), ed. Imamura Shôhei et al. (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1986), 246. 86. Makino Mamoru, Nihon eiga kenetsu shi...

... of Tamanoi Yoshirii], in Kakutii suru gendai shis0: Toransumodan e no kokoromi [Contemporary thought in struggle: Reaching for the transmodern], ed. Imamura Hitoshi (Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 1991), I 19-33. 47 Murakami...