Papers at the workshop were pre-distributed and pre-read. Abstracts and final papers were put online on Kinema Club. This allowed us both to save the time and expense of copying and mailing the papers. More importantly, it meant that people unable to attend the workshop could still read the papers. In that sense, this experiment in distribution worked extremely well. However, writers were understandably nervous about putting such early drafts on the internet. The abstracts below were all written before the papers, and thus are now only gestures to the writers' work as it is developing.

• Eric Cazdyn (U of Oregon), "Film Historiography's Other Object: Theorizing the History of Writing Japanese Film History" Abstract.
• Darrell Wm. Davis (Hong Kong), "Re-igniting Japanese Tradition with Hana-Bi" Abstract.
• Aaron Gerow (Yokohama National U), "Japanese Cinema Studies Here and There: The Academic Subject in Global Culture" Abstract.
• Jonathan Hall (UC Santa Cruz/U of Tokyo), "Sexual Worlds in National Films: Sexuality, the Dilemma of Psychoanalytic Criticism, and the Stakes of Theory" Abstract.
• Kato Mikiro (U of Kyoto), "What is Japanese Cinema Studies as Such?: Some Tendencies of the Discipline in Japan" Abstract.
• Joseph Murphy (U of Florida), "Is There a Discipline Called Japanese Cinema Studies?" Abstract.