Film Screening Journey from the Fall opened to critical acclaim, and won numerous awards including the Best Director from the Asian Festival of first Film, the Grand Jury Prize at the Amazonas International Film Festival, the Best Feature Film at the Anchorage International Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, among many others. The … [Read more...]
Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Franz Prichard (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep … [Read more...]
Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Kerim Yasar (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voices, Kerim Yasar traces the origins of … [Read more...]
Ying Qian Receives 2018-19 Global Humanities Projects Grant
We congratulate Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, who will share a 2018-19 Global Humanities Projects Grant for the project "Thinking the Ecological in Media Studies." The grants, awarded by Columbia University, support projects that engage collaboratively with scholars outside of the United States, with a focus on any topic that brings … [Read more...]
Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Hikari Hori (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese … [Read more...]
