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From: H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> List Editor: H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> Editor's Subject: H-JAPAN (E): OSU Recent PhD Lecture Series Author's Subject: H-JAPAN (E): OSU Recent PhD Lecture Series Date Written: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:59:38 -0400 Date Posted: Sun, 28 Apr 2012 00:59:38 -0400 |
On-line editor: Janet R. Goodwin <jan@cs.csustan.edu> H-JAPAN April 26, 2012 From: Naoki Yamamoto <naokiya@gmail.com> Hi, I'm going to give a talk on May 10 at the Ohio State University, as part of Recent PhD Lecture series. Please join me if you happen to be around Columbus on that date! Best, Naoki Date: May 10, 2012 Time: 5:30 PM Place: Psychology Building, Room 0014 Speaker: Naoki Yamamoto (Yale, PhD 2012) Title: Documenting the War Effort: Imamura Taihei and Wartime Japanese Film Theory Abstract: This lecture examines the work of Imamura Taihei (1911-1986) in an attempt to illuminate the complex nature of mass culture in wartime Japan. One of the most acclaimed theorists in the history of Japanese cinema, Imamura's writings are marked by his dual interest in animation and documentary, the two "marginalized" genres that garnered greater popularity in the period following Japan's participation in the war against China in 1931. In contrast to the commonplace assumption that treats these genres as the opposite poles of film practice at large, Imamura shrewdly redefined them as sharing the same mission of offering animated documentations of the world in motion, and, by extension, documentations of history-in-the-making. Equally at stake in his theorization was the increasingly significant role that cinema, especially those made in the format of news films, began to play this period in mediating the masses and their everyday life. By providing a close reading of his two seminal books--Kiroku eigaron (On Documentary Film, 1940) and Manga eigaron (On Animation, 1941)--this lecture seeks to elucidate the continuing relevance of Imamura's film theory to our current mediascape. At the same time, it also specifies the perplexing discursive context of wartime Japan wherein Imamura's seemingly "liberal" call for the socialization of the mass medium seamlessly became part of the official discourse of Japanese fascism as it was mobilized for war. ******************************************************** TO POST A MESSAGE TO THE H-JAPAN LIST SEND MAIL TO h-japan@h-net.msu.edu ********************************************************
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