Abé Markus Nornes is an associate professor in both the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. He is 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, and Mechadamia and has been co-owner of the internet newsgroup KineJapan since its inception. 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 has also been a coordinator for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival since 1990, 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. He is currently working on Traffic: The Translator's Cinema, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press .
