Kinema Club began with members sharing copies of tables of contents of rare Japanese film journals and has expanded to present original research and disseminate broad-ranging information on Japanese moving image media. Submissions are welcome and will be refereed by the editorial collective. Inquiries about submissions should be sent to aaron.gerow@yale.edu or nornes@umichi.edu.
Research Guides
Online information for researching Japanese cinema
Kinema Club started as a group to exchange film notes, research notes and tables of contents of the major Japanese language film periodicals.
Conference Reports
Workshops and symposia on Japanese films
Kinema Club is not the only organization that holds workshops and symposia on Japanese moving image media. We encourage thoughtful reports on such conferences—or on Kinema Club’s own meetings. Reports on themed festivals and retrospectives are also welcome.
Publications
Books published by Kinema Club members
Kinema Club is primarily an organization for networking and sharing knowledge, but it has also been a site for generating and publishing research. In addition to the reports, notes, and articles on this site, Kinema Club has also published books electronically and on paper.
Online Articles
Finding books and periodicals
This is a collection of some of the more interesting articles on Japanese moving image media available for free on the web. The focus here is on introducing pieces from sites or journals that do not normally focus on Japanese film.
Japanese Bibliography
This bibliography contains English-language books and articles about Japanese cinema. It is long, but hardly complete. Suggestions for additions are more than welcome.
