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...]
The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Alexander Zahlten (Duke University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the … [Read more...]
“Toho Company: An Archival History in Japanese Cinema”
Exhibition Opening "Toho Company: An Archival History in Japanese Cinema" Remarks by: Paul Anderer, Columbia University Hikari Hori, Columbia University Brant Reiter, Producer Haruo Shirane, Columbia University Ann D. Thornton, Columbia University 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Reading Room, C.V. Starr East Asian Library No registration required. Co-sponsored by the C.V. … [Read more...]
March 26 Event: “Constructing Godzilla in Mid-Twentieth Century Japan and America”
Photographs and audio are now available from the March 26, 2015 event “Constructing Godzilla in Mid-Twentieth Century Japan and America.” The event featured a lecture by Yoshiko Ikeda, Associate Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and was moderated by Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of … [Read more...]
