Making Audiences: A Social History of Japanese Cinema and Media

This book covers 100 years of Japanese cinema's social history. It engages critically with a number of theories in film studies, media studies, areas studies, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, colonial studies, and political studies. Also, demonstrates an innovative and extensive empirical research on cinema audiences in relation to such social subjects as the people, the national populace, the East Asian race, the masses, and citizens. See full table of contents.

*Attendees would receive a 30% discount ticket for the book

Speaker biography

Hideaki Fujiki is professor of screen studies, Nagoya University, Japan. His other publications include Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013) and The Japanese Cinema Book co-edited with Alastair Phillips (British Film Institute, 2020). He is currently completing two monographs provisionally titled Radioactive Screen: Ecology from Fukushima to the Planet and Diverging Imaginations of Diastrophism: Ecology of Media and the Planet in the Japan Sinks Franchise..

Chaired by Jason James, Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.

Coordinated by Dr. Marcos Centeno (University of Valencia. Birkbeck, University of London) m.centeno@bbk.ac.uk

Event in partnership with the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.

Registration

This event is free, but booking is essential. Please register on the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation website.