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“The Postwar Documentary Trace: Groping in the Dark"
(2002)
An historiography of left-wing documentary film practice and theory, focussing on the early 1970s and asking "What happened?"
"Toward an Abusive Subtitling: Illuminating Cinema’s Apparatus of Translation"
(1999)
Inspired by amateur anime subtitling collectives, this essay looks at the history of subtitling to critique conventional approaches and propose an "abusive" approach from a profoundly different notion of fidelity.
“Our Presence is Our Absence: History and Memory"
(1993)
Review of Rea Tajiri's History and Memory.
“The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On/ Yukiyukite shingun [book review].”
(1998)
Book review of Jeffrey Ruoff's The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On.
“Pôru Rûta and the Politics of Translation"
(1999)
British documentary filmmaker and author Paul Rotha had a great influence on filmmakers in prewar Japan. In fact, translations of his book Documentary Film were the "bible" for both militarist and leftist documentarists ...