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Position

Former Visiting Lecturer

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Field

Japanese Film Studies

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?Tell me about your research briefly.

I am researching stakes in and methods of preserving films on videotape, primarily from the video rental shop era. Original materials of many of those films are lost now, so we must be careful to preserve what is left. Many of today's globally famous Japanese filmmaker made such works, while video has been the world's dominant form of cinema culture for more than three decades now. Preservation is therefore important both for artistic reasons and from the viewpoint of material culture.

?At TUFS what is your lecture?

I teach three classes during my term at TUFS: Introduction to Anime Studies (theoretical approaches to studying Japanese animation); Film & Society: Japan in the World, the World in Japan (approaches to using film in studying discourse and international relations); and a course related to my research topic, Video from Revolution to Rubbish, looking at film consumptio