Poster for an early Vitascope event (1899).
Sample 
Syllabi

Dialogue of Violence: Cinema in WWII's Pacific Theater: by Abé Mark Nornes (University of Michigan)

Oral History Assignment

Japanese Cinema Survey: by Abé Mark Nornes (University of Michigan)

Structured Chronologically
Structured Thematically
Graduate Student Supplement
Kurosawa Paper Assignment
Ozu Paper Assignment

Japanese Film Theory and Criticism: by Abé Mark Nornes (University of Michigan)

Japanese Film and Fiction: by Darrel William Davis (University of Hong Kong)

Let the Shadow Warrior Speak: by Hitomi Tonomura (University of Michigan)

Comparative Cultural Criticism: by Michael Raine (University of Iowa)

Authors of the Japanese Cinema: Mizoguchi Kenji, Oshima Nagisa, Kitano Takeshi: by Michael Raine (University of Iowa)