[Commlist] New Book - Japanese Cinema and Punk: Intermedial Exchanges

New book publication from Bloomsbury Academic – */Japanese Cinema and 
Punk: Intermedial Exchanges/* – now available in hardback and eBook.

It should appeal to those with research and/or teaching interests in the 
following areas: Japanese cinema and its film industry during the 1970s 
and 80s, DIY film production and exhibition, punk studies, 
intermediality, film and music, film and subculture.

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*Book description:*

In /Japanese Cinema and Punk/, Mark Player examines how the 
do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese 
filmmakers during a period of crisis and change in Japan's film industry.

Drawing on rare materials and first-hand interviews with filmmakers 
originally from Japanese cinema’s rich tradition of ‘self-made film’ 
(/jishu//-eiga/), including Ishii Gakuryu (formerly Ishii Sogo), 
Yamamoto Masashi, Tsukamoto Shinya, Fukui Shozin and others, the book 
explores how punk’s bricolage style was leveraged to create exciting 
intermedial film aesthetics and screening strategies. It examines how 
these aesthetics were influenced by rock music, graffiti art, street 
performance, handmade animation, television and other mass media.


By considering the practical, phenomenological, and political dimensions 
of combining different media elements/, Japanese Cinema and 
Punk/ interweaves cultural history, production context and media theory 
to offer in-depth analyses of films such as /Burst City/ (1982), 
/Robinson's Garden/ (1987), /Tetsuo: The Iron Man/ (1989), and more. By 
doing so, it further traces the changing sociocultural position of 
Japan's ‘punk generation’ throughout the 1980s — from its euphoric 
early-80s peak to the growing disillusionment caused by its mainstream 
co-optation and convergence.

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*Further details* are available on the Bloomsbury website: 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/japanese-cinema-and-punk-9781350378568/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/japanese-cinema-and-punk-9781350378568/>

With kind regards,

*Dr Mark Player*

**

Japanese Cinema and Punk cover 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/japanese-cinema-and-punk-9781350378568/>

*AVAILABLE NOW: *

Player, M (2025). */Japanese Cinema and Punk: Intermedial Exchanges/* 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/japanese-cinema-and-punk-9781350378568/>//(London: 
Bloomsbury Academic)

*Recent work:*

Player, M (2023). ‘Japanese Self-Made Film Remakes as Self-Improvement: 
Professional Desires and DIY Fulfilment, from /Panic High School/ to 
/Tetsuo’/, in */East Asian Film Remakes/* 
<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-east-asian-film-remakes.html>, 
edited by David Scott Diffrient and Kenneth Chan (Edinburgh University 
Press), pp. 92-108.

Player, M (2023). ‘Uto/Pia/: An Early History of Pia and its Role in 
Japan’s “Self-made” Film Culture’, */Japan Forum/* 
<https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2021.1895283>35.3: 314-343.

Player, M (2023). ‘Parallax Historiography and Metareference: The 
intramedial case of Nagasaki Shunichi's /Heart, Beating in the Dark/’, 
in */The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium Through Other 
Media/* 
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-moving-form-of-film-9780197621714?cc=gb&lang=en&;>, 
edited by Lucia Nagib and Stefan Solomon (Oxford University Press), pp. 
47-63.

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