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Directed Research and Faculty Members | GSICCS20 Film StudiesMORITA, NorimasaPh.D. in English (University of Kent)RESEARCH FIELD:Film StudiesThe Literature and Intellectual History of JapanPINNINGTON, AdrianD.Phil. in English Literature (University of Sussex)RESEARCH FIELD:Changing Conceptions of Japanese Culture Visual CultureYOSHIMOTO, MitsuhiroPh.D. in Comparative Literature (University of California, San Diego)RESEARCH FIELD:Media and Cinema StudiesIn my MA seminar, students will explore visual culture from a variety of theoretically informed perspectives. Types of visual culture to be studied include lm, television, photography, painting, anime, manga, video games, architecture, and images for surveillance, security and social control. We will examine the meanings and value of visual images, the political implications of looking at images/being looked at as images, and the possibilities of visual culture studies as an academic discipline. The ultimate purpose of the seminar is to help students rene their ability to think about the question of visual culture critically and prepare for their professional careers or further research on a doctoral level. Through a combination of closely supervised tutorials and formal course work, students in my Ph.D. seminar will pursue, an advanced study of visual culture within the broader context of media studies, lm studies, cultural studies, and/or other emerging elds of interdisciplinary inquiries. We will systematically examine the formal and aesthetic specicity of different types of visual culture in relation to economic and socio-political issues not as a supplementary context but as the fundamental conditions of its possibility. Students are expected to not only work on their dissertation research but also develop a competency in a well-dened academic eld in preparation for careers in academia.Visions and Revisions of Japanese Literature – Translation, Reception, Dissemination. Following the Meiji Restoration, many Japanese doubted the relevance of traditional Japanese literary genres to the new era of modernity into which they were entering. In fact, however, traditional texts and genres have proved to have a surprising vitality, inuencing literature outside Japan as well as within. In this seminar, we will look at the complex relationship between the translation and dissemination of Japanese literature abroad and the changing ways in which it has been understood and enjoyed inside Japan. Using ideas drawn from critical theory and translation studies, we will look at the translation and interpretation of particular texts drawn from various genres, such as the Genji Monogatari, waka and haiku, the No and Kabuki, as well as more modern texts, and the relationship between how these texts have been understood outside Japan and within modern Japanese culture. My academic specialty is lm studies, and more specically lm history and theory, and world cinema. My past and recent research includes the history of the British cinema, the theory of lm realism, lm adaptation, and the semiotic and post-semiotic analysis of cinema. For my seminar in the MA programme, a different theme is set each semester and students make a presentation on a lm related to the theme and discuss in each seminar. Screening of a lm is arranged each week outside seminar. The theme of the semester at the time of writing this is ‘screening the past: memory, trauma and nostalgia.’ I am looking forward to supervising students who are specializing in lm history of any country or area, and lm theory concerning feminism, gender studies, structuralism, post-structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis and ideological analysis. It will be ideal if you have a degree in lm studies or good experiences in studying cinema. This does not mean that I will not consider those who have no such degree or experience, but I would certainly prefer to whose have at least good experience in studying lm and more importantly are passionate about cinema. The prospective Ph. D. students are naturally expected to have already obtained a MA degree in the subject relevant to the research that he or she wishes to carry out to obtain a degree. Their MA degree does not have to be strictly that of lm studies, but at least their MA thesis should contain a good discussion on lm, video, or/and television or they have got paper(s) published concerning a lm or television theme. I will be happy and be able to supervise those who are thinking of writing Ph. D. thesis on the Asian, European or North American cinema or exploring lm theory. ProfessorProfessorProfessor※Not in charge of directed research due to sabbatical leave from March 2020 to March 2022.

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