Film programs. Collection of 114 legal-size posters advertising screenings of Japanese movies in New York City
- SIGNED
- New York , 1960-1965
114 leaves printed in mimeo and offset lithography (recto only) on commercial paper stocks of varying color, 8.5 x 14 inches each. An additional 28 leaves of material includes exhibition and bazaar announcements, issue no. 1 of the White Way Buddhist newsletter (Oct. 19, 1960), and the N.Y. Buddhist Church's 1961 annual financial report. Very good, old folds from postal mailing, a few with annotations in ink, mostly dates. Loose as issued, organized chronologically in two portfolios. [1971]
A fascinating collection of ephemera documenting the presentation of popular Japanese movies in New York City at a time when it was otherwise very difficult to see them. An influential film series, the N.Y. Buddhist Church screenings provided the city's burgeoning Japanese expat community a way to keep up with films from the homeland, while also giving Manhattan art house moviegoers a chance to sample new movies by Inagoki, Masumura, Kawashima, Ohniwa, Yasuda, Shima, Watanabe and others with English subtitles. This is a useful collection for scholars interested in Asian American life in New York City, as well as an important record of the Buddhist Church's role in transmitting postwar Japanese cinema to American audiences.
A fascinating collection of ephemera documenting the presentation of popular Japanese movies in New York City at a time when it was otherwise very difficult to see them. An influential film series, the N.Y. Buddhist Church screenings provided the city's burgeoning Japanese expat community a way to keep up with films from the homeland, while also giving Manhattan art house moviegoers a chance to sample new movies by Inagoki, Masumura, Kawashima, Ohniwa, Yasuda, Shima, Watanabe and others with English subtitles. This is a useful collection for scholars interested in Asian American life in New York City, as well as an important record of the Buddhist Church's role in transmitting postwar Japanese cinema to American audiences.