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Required Texts

[Kirino] = Kirino, Natsuo. Out. Vintage, 2005. ISBN: 9781400078370.

[Abe] = Abe, Kobo. The Woman in the Dunes. Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 9780679733782.

Course readings.
WEEKS #	TOPICS	READINGS
Part I: Form & Content in Storytelling: Live Action Film, Anime, Rakugo
1	Paradoxes of Perspective: Rashomon in Prose and Film	Keene, Donald. "Japanese Aesthetics." In The Pleasures of Japanese Literature. Columbia University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780231067379. Akutagawa, Ryunosuke. "In a Grove." In Rashomon and Other Stories. Liveright, 1999. ISBN: 9780871401731. ———. "Rashomon." In Rashomon and Other Stories. Liveright, 1999. ISBN: 9780871401731. J. Geiger, R. L. Rutsky, ed. "A Search for a National Community." In Film Analysis: A Norton Reader. W. W. Nortan & Company, 2005, pp. 495-508. ISBN: 9780393979831.
2	Film Studies: Collaborative Creativity, Transmedia, and the Social	Condry, Ian. Chapters 1–2 in The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story. Duke University Press Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780822353942. Jenkins, Henry. "Seven Core Principles of Transmedia Storytelling." (2009)
3	Rakugo: The Art of Storytelling	Brau, Lorie. "Rakugo: The Comic Storytelling Art." In Rakugo: Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo. Lexington Books, 2008. ISBN: 9780739122464. [Preview with Google Books]
4	Discuss Readings and Films	Lee, Soo-Im. "Koreans—A Mistreated Minority in Japan: Hopes and Challenges for Japan's True Internationalization." In Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity. Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 9780415368902. [Preview with Google Books] [Kirino] Ongoing
Part II: Social Pressures and Social Rewards – Modern Day
5	Small Group Projects	[Kirino] Ongoing
6	Small Group Projects and Film Viewing	[Kirino] Ongoing
7	Out	No readings.
8	Discuss Readings and Films	No readings.
Part III: Social Pressures and Social Rewards – Other Examples
9	Discuss Readings and Films	Bolitho, Harold. "The Myth of the Samurai." (PDF) 1984. Tsunetomo, Yamamoto. Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai. Shambhala, 2012. ISBN: 9781590309858. Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. The Love Suicides at Amajima. The University of Michigan Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780939512515. [Abe] Ongoing
10	Discuss Readings and Films	[Abe] Ongoing Tanizaki, Junichiro. Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro on Cinema "Oriental" Aesthetics. University of Michigan Centre for, 2005. ISBN: 9781929280339. Kawabata, Yasunari. The Izu Dancer and Other Stories. Tuttle Publishing, 2001. ISBN: 9780804811415. [Preview with Google Books] Condry, Ian. "Post-3/11 Japan and the Radical Recontextualization of Value: Music, Social Media, and End-Around Strategies for Cultural Action." International Journal of Japanese Sociology 20, no. 1 (2011): 4–17. Murakami, Haruki. "UFO in Kushiro." In After the Quake. Vintage, 2003. ISBN: 9780375713279. Shikibu, Murasaki. The Tale of Genji. Penguin Classics, 2006. ISBN: 9780143039495. U, Mel. "'Onnagata" by Yukio Mishima." The Reading Life. August 30, 2011.
11	Discuss Readings and Films	No readings.