found: His The samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, c1983: CIP t.p. (David Desser) publisher's info. (David Michael Desser; Ph. D., Univ. of Southern Calif.)
found: Reframing Japanese cinema, c1992: CIP t.p. (David Desser) data sheet (b. 1953)
found: The cinema of Hong Kong, 2000: t.p. (David Desser; Univ. of Ill., Urbana-Champaign) p. i (prof. of cinema studies and speech communication)
found: OCLC #8323005, 10/4/00 (hdg.: Desser, David Michael; usage: David Michael Desser; author's Ph. D. thesis, Univ. of So. Calif., 1981)