Abe Mark Nornes teaches Asian cinema at the University of Michigan's Program in Film and Video and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. He has also been a coordinator for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan since 1990. Nornes has published articles about Asian cinema in American and Japanese film journals, and is co-editor and contributing author of The Japan / America Film Wars: WWII Propaganda and its Cultural Contexts (Harwood, 1994). His current project is a book on the first 50 years of Japanese documentary film and theory. On the WWW he has spearheaded Kinema Club, a website devoted to the study of Japanese moving image media. Forthcoming articles include an analysis of multiple translation of Paul Rotha's Documentary Film in 1930s Japan (Cinema Journal), and a look at the history of subtitling from the perspective of translation theory (Film Quarterly).
Abe Mark Nornes / amnornes@umich.eduYeh Yueh yu is Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Cinema-Television, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. She earned her PhD in Critical Studies (Cinema-TV) at University of S. California in 1995. A member of the advisory board of the Taipei Film Archive and a regular contributor to Film Appreciation, she has also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Chinese Cinema (Routledge). "A Life of Its Own: Musical Discourses in Wong Kar-wai's Films" is forthcoming from Post Script. She has also reviewed Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics for Jump Cut.
Yeh Yueh-yu / yyyeh@hkbu.edu.hk Last Revised: February 1998