Hikari Hori

Japanese Film, Visual Culture Studies, Gender Studies, and Feminist and Critical Theories

Hikari Hori received her Ph. D. in gender studies and Japanese visual cultural studies from Gakushuin University, Tokyo, in 2004. She has worked as a research associate at the National Film Center, Tokyo, and also as a film program coordinator at the Japan Society, New York. Her current research interests include war and media; the representation of the Emperor in modern Japan; and shojo manga in Asia.

Recent publications include: “Tezuka, Shojo manga, and Hagio Moto,” Mechademia Vol.8 (2013); “Views from Elsewhere: Female Shoguns in Yoshinaga Fumi’s Ôoku and Their Precursors in Japanese Popular Culture,” Japanese Studies 32:1 (2012); “Aging, Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Popular Culture: Female Pornographer Sachi Hamano and Her Film “Lily Festival” (Yurisai), ” in Matsumoto, ed. Faces and Masks (Stanford University Press);and “Oshima Nagisa’s ‘Ai no korida’ Reconsidered: Law, Gender, and Sexually Explicit Film in Japanese Cinema,” in Creekmur and Sidel, eds., Cinema, Law and the State in Asia (Palgrave, 2007). She is currently working on book manuscript entitled Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Cultures of Japan during the Asia Pacific War, 1931-1945.