Donald Richie: A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos, 2005. Kodansha International; 2 Rev Upd edition. ISBN: ISBN-10: 4770029950, ISBN-13: 978-4770029959.
Endorsed
Sharon Kinsella: Adult Manga – Culture & Power in Contemporary Japanese Society, 2000. Curzon. (normally pensum, but at present cheap paperback out of stock).
Additional reading
Joseph L. Anderson & Donald Richie: The Japanese Film – Art and Industry , (expanded edition), 1983. Princeton University Press .
David Desser: Eros Plus Massacre – An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema, 1988. Indiana University Press.
Arthur Noletti & David Desser, eds: Reframing Japanese Cinema – Authorship, Genre, History, 1992. Indiana University Press.
Dennis Washburn & Carole Cavanaugh, eds: Word and Image in Japanese Cinema, 2000. Cambridge University Press.
Tom Mes & Jasper Sharp: The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film, 2004. Stone Bridge Press.
Isolde Standish: A New History of Japanese Cinema – A Century of Narrative Film, 2006. Continuum.
Keiko I. McDonald: Reading a Japanese Film – Cinema in Context, 2006. University of Hawaii Press.
Alexander Jacoby: A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors, 2008. Stone Bridge Press.
Alistair Phillips & Julian Stringer, eds: Japanese Cinema – Texts and Contexts, 2007. Routledge.
Abe Mark Nornes & Aaron Gerow: Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies, 2009. University of Michigan Press.
www.midnighteye.com,
Frederik L. Schodt: , Manga! Manga! – The World of Japanese Comics, 1986. Kodansha International.
Frederik L. Schodt: Dreamland Japan – Writings on Modern Manga, 1996. Stone Bridge Press.
Paul Gravett: Manga – 60 Years of Japanese Comics, 2004. Collins Design.
Susan Napier: Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle – Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, (updated edition), 2005. Palgrave Macmillan.
Frenchy Lunning, ed: Mechademia, 1-4 (annual publication), 2006-09. University of Minnesota Press.