Cinephilia and film production in contemporary Japan

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Carroll, William

• SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Until recently, Western film scholars have studied Japanese cinema with complete disregard for the extensive body of Japanese film criticism and film theory that has been produced alongside the films themselves. These extensive discourses on cinema are an important part of Japanese film history, but have remained largely inaccessible to film scholars outside Japan even as interest in Japanese film has increased worldwide. This project focuses on cinephilia as a site of interaction between theory, production, and spectatorship. Thus, this research project seeks to translate, analyze, and argue for the continued historical relevance of a strain of Japanese film theory that has been closely intertwined with Japanese cinema since the 1980s. My proposed project will address this Eurocentric bias in film studies by examining Japanese cinephile culture in its social, historical, and intellectual contexts.

• Date created

  2022-10-27

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Insight Grant
  • IG
  • SSHRC
  • Japanese Cinema
  • East Asian Cinema
  • Transnational Film Theory
  • Cinephilia
  • Film History
  • Japan Studies
  • Genre Studies
  • Horror Studies
  • Art Cinema
  • Yakuza
  • 1968AD-2022AD
  • East Asia
  • Japan

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-fxj4-f393

• License

  ©️Carroll, William. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2030.