The world film industry, including Japan's, is now completing a changeover from traditional film stock to digital substitutes.
Actor-director Takeshi Kitano recently commented that, of the 18 films screened in completion at this year's Venice Film Festival, only two, including his own "Autoreiji: Biyondo" (Outrage Beyond), were shot on film. As if to confirm the end of film's century-long reign, Fuji Film announced in September that it was discontinuing the production of movie film, which it had been making since 1934.
So, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano's book would seem to be timely indeed. Instead, it illustrates the limitations of academic publishing, with its years-long gap between manuscript submission and publication, in dealing with a subject like the digital revolution, in which yesterday's speculation is today's fait accompli.