Abé Mark Nornes, Associate Professor, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures/Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, 1996-

Abé Markus Nornes is Professor of Asian Cinema in both the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. His latest book, Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema , is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. He is also the author of  Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary Film (Minnesota UP) and Japanese Documentary Film: From the Meiji Era to Hiroshima (Minnesota UP) as well as many articles in edited volumes and journals such as Cinema Journal and Film Quarterly .  He co-edited Japan-American Film Wars (Routledge), In Praise of Film Studies (Kinema Club), and many film festival retrospective catalogs.  He is on the editorial boards of Documentary Box (Japan), International Studies in Documentary , The Journal of Korean and Japanese Cinema  and Mechadamia  and has been co-owner of the internet newsgroup KineJapan since its inception in 1995.  For the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications Program, he edits a digital reprint series on Japanese cinema ( http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/publications/cjsfaculty/filmseries.html ).  Professor Nornes was also a coordinator for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival from 1990 to 2005, where he programmed major retrospectives such as Japan-America Film Wars , In Our Own Eyes - Indigenous People's Film and Video Festival , and Den'ei Nana Henge: Seven Transfigurations in Electric Shadows.  Current projects include an edited volume on the pink cinema of Japan and a reader of Japanese film theory in translation. 

Nornes' homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes