You are invited to the next research workshop of Global Asia Research Center at Waseda University, which will be held on July 23rd at 6:15 PM.


Global Asia Studies Workshop:

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Date: July 23, 2018

Time: 18:15-19:45

Speaker: Professor Earl Jackson

Affiliation: University of California, Santa Cruz and National Chiao Tung University


Title: Critical Conditions: Theory and Practice in Masumura Yasuzo and Yoshida Kiju



Description:

At least since the Soviets, the question of the relation of theory and practice has long been of central importance in cinema. In the 1950s and 1960s there was another efflorescence in theoretically informed practice, when writers for /Cahiers du Cinema /picked up the camera themselves/./ The dynamic relations between theory and practice in Japanese cinema history, however has not been available to non-Japanese readers.


Inthis presentation I will look at the work of two Japanese directors who wrote extensively on their theoretical positions that informed their work: Masumura Yasuzo (増村保造 1924-1986); and Yoshida Kiju 吉田喜重 (1933-). I read Masumura as a kind of speculative sociologist - focusing on Japanese specificity without succumbing to /Nihonjinron/. Yoshida articulates his interest in phenomenology in his writing, and realizes it on screen in a radical reconstruction of cinematic space. Finally I will reflect on the radical difference between the two theorist-practioners in how Yoshida deconstructs melodrama while Masumura reinhabits it to enable the genre's signifying potential.



Place: Waseda University Campus, Building 14, Room 960

1-104 Totsukamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8050, JAPAN

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Coordinators:

Naoyuki UMEMORI (Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics)

Yoshihiro NAKANO (Junior Researcher, ORIS)

Jeff Hall (Junior Researcher, ORIS)



Event Information Page: https://www.waseda.jp/global-asia/article/2018/07/483



About Us: The Global Asia Research Center aims to contribute to the global interdisciplinary scholarship on reconciliation and sustainable development and to disseminate its results from Asia to the world. We pursue our research through the dual perspective of global history and global governance, integrating three spheres of knowledge: peace and security, economics and development, and society and culture.



Our official homepage: https://www.waseda.jp/global-asia/



We regularly hold research workshops in which scholars deliver presentations and engage in discussion with members of the audience. Presentations generally last about 45 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of discussion. These forums are open to scholars and members of the general public. All are welcome to attend, but please register in advance via e-mail (to Jeff Hall at jeffreyhall@aoni.waseda.jp ) so that we can prepare seating for participants.