Thomas LaMarre is the William Dawson Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at McGill University. He is coeditor (with Kang Nae-hui) of Impacts of Modernities (2003) and the author of Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensatio
"English-language readers have long had access to the translated
splendors of modern European film criticism. Now it is our good
fortune to have Thomas LaMarre's masterful translations of Tanizaki
Junichirô's stories and essays about film. These landmark
translations, along with LaMarre's marvelous companion
commentaries, reveal a cinematic sensibility as fully original and
acute as that of Walter Benjamin's or Siegfried Kracauer's. A
signal achievement."--Marilyn Ivy, Columbia University
"How to think of the cinematic as an experience, beyond cinema's
Western origins and exclusively modern associations? Thomas LaMarre
has provided a remarkable set of ruminations on this question
through his translations of and commentaries on Jun'ichirô
Tanizaki's film stories and essays. What he has helped unveil, for
the English-reading audience, is nothing less than a theory of the
cinematic in Tanizaki's work--a theory that is based not so much on
a linear, developmental history of cinema as on an eccentric,
perverse aesthetics, distinguished first and foremost by its
explorations of the multimedia potentialities of human sensation. A
provocative contribution to the study of modernity along the
'East-West' divide."--Rey Chow, Brown University
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