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Other writings by Philip Brophy on Japanese cinema (not including anime):

Sound: Nobuhiro Yamashita's 'Linda Linda Linda'
published in Film Comment Vol.43 No.4, July-August, New York, 2007

Sound: Katsuhito Ishii's 'Funky Forest'
published in Film Comment Vol.42 No.6, November-December, New York, 2006

ARASHI GA OKA: The Sound of the World Turned Inside-Out
Japanese Horror Cinema, Edinburugh University Press, Edinburugh, 2005

Wire: Cinesonic No.3
Soundtrack CD reviews published in The Wire No. 249, London, October 2004 (contains reviews of Hana-bi. A Scene By The Sea, Dolls, Electric Dragon 80,000 Volts, Go Joe, Avalon)

Burnt In Burnt Out
catalogue essay for Phip Murray animation, ABC Strange Attractors national website/gallery, 2003 (includes discussion of post-atomic effects upon Japanese illustration techniques)

Sounds of Sex & Violence
unpublished talk delivered at Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide, 2003 (includes section on Seijun Suzuki's Gate of Flesh)

Sound: Furi Kuri
published in Film Comment Vol.38 No.6, New York, 2002

Wire: Cinesonic No.1
Soundtrack CD reviews published in The Wire 226, London, December 2002 (contains reviews of the Go! Cinemania! series)

Vinyl Fantasy
published in Gloss No.4, Melbourne, 2002 (discusses Final Fantasy in relation to posthuman pornography)

Funny Accents: The Sound of Racism
published in CINESONIC: Experiencing The Soundtrack, AFTRS Publishing, Sydney, 2002 (includes discussion of Japanese/USA versions of Gojira/Godzilla & Kagi No Kagi/What's Up Tiger Lilly?

Monster Island: Godzilla & Japanese Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy
published in Postcolonial Studies, Vol.3 No.1, London, 2000

How Sound Floats on Land: the Suppression & Release of Indigenous Musics on the Cinematic Terrain
published in CINESONIC: Film & The Sound of Music, AFTRS Publishing, Sydney, 2000; forthcoming excerpt published in BEYOND THE SOUNDTRACK, University of California Press, 2005 (includes discussion of Kaidan)

The Rising Sun Set: The West's Fascination with Japan
unpublished panel discussion, The Melbourne Writer's Festival, Melbourne, 1999 (discusses posthuman pornography, multi-market manga, consensual S&M contracts, non-Christian bodies, British mediarising of Japan as weird)

Re-inventing Tradition & Reverence for the Superficial
unpublished paper delivered @ an Asian Arts Society of Australia forum, Caulfield Arts Centre, Melbourne, 1999 (discusses manga in relation to calligraphy & painting, bonsai & gardening, architecture & geography, sound & silence)

Asia Minor & Other Eastern Modes Part 1: The Skin of the Human Drum
published as part of of the SECRET HISTORY OF FILM MUSIC series, The Wire No. 161, July, London, 1997 (covers Godzilla, Kaidan, Akira)

Asia Minor & Other Eastern Modes Part 2: Sukiyaki, Chow Mein, Minestrone
published as part of of the SECRET HISTORY OF FILM MUSIC series, The Wire No.162, August, London, 1997 (covers The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Angel Dust, Labyrinth of Dreams, Arashi ga oka)

LABYRINTH OF DREAMS
catalogue entry for Ishii Sogo's film in the Melbourne International Film Festival, 1995

TETSUO II: Mutant Offspring of Mutant Culture
catalogue essay for Japanese theatrical release of TETSUO II, 1993

Apocalyptic Scenarios In Japanese Pop Culture
unpublished talk/slide-lecture delivered @ the 41st Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, 1991 (discusses Godzilla, Akira, Patlabor, Urotsuki Doji)

No Comment On Images
unpublished talk (with Adrian Martin) delivered @ the Futurfall Conference on Postmodernism, Sydney University, 1984 (includes section on advertising imagery in Tokyo)

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