Introduction Part 1: What Is Japanese Cinema Studies?: Japanese Cinema and Cinema Studies Chapter 1: Japanese Film Without Japan: Toward an Undisciplined Film Studies (Eric Cazdyn) Chapter 2: Triangulating Japanese Film Style (Ben Singer) Chapter 3: Critical Reception: Historical Conceptions of Japanese Film Criticism (Aaron Gerow) Chapter 4: Creating the Audience: Cinema as Popular Recreation and Social Education in Modern Japan (Hideaki Fujiki) Part 2: What Is Japanese Cinema?: Japanese Cinema and the Transnational Network Chapter 5 Adaptation As "Transcultural Mimesis" (Michael Raine) Chapter 6 The Edge of Montage: A Case of Modernism/Modanizumu in Japanese Cinema (Chika Kinoshita) Chapter 7 Nationalizing Madame Butterfly: The Formation of Female Stars in Japanese Cinema (Daisuke Miyao) Chapter 8 Performing Colonial Identity: Byeonsa, Colonial Film Spectatorship, and the Formation of National Cinema in Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule (Dong Hoon Kim) Chapter 9 Outpost of Hybridity: Paramount's Campaign in Japan, 1952-1962 (Hiroshi Kitamura) Chapter 10 Erasing China in Japan's "Hong Kong Films" (Kwai Cheung Lo) Chapter 11 The Emergence of the Asian Film Festival: Cold War Asia and Japan's Re-entrance to the Regional Film Industry in the 1950s (Sang Joon Lee) Chapter 12 Yamagata - Asia - Europe: International Film Festival Short-Circuit (Abé Mark Nornes) Part 3: What Japanese Cinema Is!: Japanese Cinema and the Intermedial Practices Chapter 13 Nitrate Film Production in Japan: a Historical Background of the Early Days (Okada Hidenori - Translated by Ayako Saito) Chapter 14 Sketches of Silent Film Sound in Japan: Theatrical Functions of Ballyhoo, Orchestras and Kabuki Ensambles (Hosokawa Shuhei) Chapter 15 The Jidaigeki Film Genre: Twilight Samurai and Its Contexts (Yamamoto Ichiro - Translated by Diane Wei Lewis) Chapter 16 Occupation and Memory: the Representation of Woman's Body in Postwar Japanese Cinema (Ayako Saito) Chapter 17 Cinema and Memory: Confabulated Memories, Nishijin (1961) (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano) Chapter 18 By Other Hands: Environment and Apparatus in 1960s Intermedia (Myriam Sas) Chapter 19 Viral Contagion in the Ringu Intertext (Carlos Rojas) Chapter 20 Manga/Anime/Games (the Media Mix) and the Metaphoric Economy of World (Alexander Zahlten).