Studies in the Relations Between Literature and the Other Arts

This seminar reads key works and theoretical concepts related to Japanese visual cultures—film, visual arts, photography, and animation. From silent cinema (and benshi narration) to experimental/ New Wave works and animé, from avant-garde happenings and action art to Fluxus to contemporary internet culture, the seminar locates Japanese visual cultures in relation to central debates in Asian critical arts/film theory and contemporary critical theory.

Among the texts studied are works by: Akasegawa, Azuma, Chow, Dym, Hall, Hosoe, Hou, Jameson,  Jonouchi, Lee U-fan, Lippit, Matsumoto, Miyazaki, Moriyama, Ōno Y., Ōshima, Ozu, Tatsumi, Tsuge, and others.