Talking Silents
New Approaches to Early Japanese Cinema
&
the Art of the Benshi
An international symposium
March 2, 2019
Billy Wilder Theater | Hammer Museum, UCLA
The Schedule
9:30–10:30
Kusahara Machiko
“Utsushi-e: A Narrative Screen Practice in the 19th Century Japan”
Kodama Ryuichi
“無声映画と歌舞伎研究”
11:00-12:00
David Desser
“Narration and Narrativity in Kurosawa's Nora inu (Stray Dog)”
Kondo Kazuto
“映画館における「声」と「文字」:
1910－20年代の都市空間における興行モード”
12:00-12:30
Discussion
1:30-3:00
Kyoko Omori
“The Soundscape of Benshi Performance:
‘Inter-Mediating’ Global Modernity”
Shibata Kotaro
“Various Standardizations of Film Sound/Music Practice in
Japanese Movie Theaters during the 1910-20s”
Sasagawa Keiko
“活弁LOVE：ネオスーパー・トーキーと1930年代日本映画産業”
3:30-4:30
Shirai Fumito
“Transpacific Exchange and Arrangement of Silent Film Music in Japan:
Imported Scores in the Hirano Collection from the 1920s”
Dong Hoon Kim
“From Benshi to Byeonsa: The Transcoloinal Practice of Benshi
and the Formation of Film Culture in Colonial Korea”
4:30-5:00
Discussion
