Jonathan M. HallAssistant Professor, Comparative Literature Assistant Professor, Film & Media Studies Assistant Professor, International Center for Writing and Translation
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Research Interests |
Japan Studies; Cinema Studies; Psychoanalytic Criticism | |
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Research Abstract |
My current book project, "Unwilling Subjects: Fantastic Politics and the Japanese Postwar" maps how concepts of fantasy, perversion, and sublimation were used to probe the legacies of post-fascism and neo-imperialism by postwar Japanese literary and cinematic avant-gardes. | |
| Publications |
•“Area Studies at the Bedroom Door: Queer Theory, Japan, and the Case of the Missing Fantasy,” Japanese Studies 23: 2 (September 2003). 205-212. •Book Review. Garrett Stewart, Between Film and Screen: Modernism’s Photo Synthesis. Documentary Box 19 (Autumn 2002): 31-32. •"Japan's Progressive Sex: Male Homosexuality, National Competition, and the Cinema," in Andrew Grossman, ed., Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade, New York: Harrington Park Press, 2000. 31-82. |
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Professional Societies |
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Modern Language Association Association for Asian Studies |
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| Other Experience | ||
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Curator (with Po-Chen Tsai) Queerly Chinese Cinemas, Univesrity of Chicago, May 2003 |
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Curator (with Michelle Puetz) JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film & Video, 1955-now, Fall 2004 |
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| Graduate Programs |
Visual Studies |
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| Research Center | Co-Founder, Asia Film & Media Studies Workshop | |
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5087 | |
| Last updated | 04/17/2007 | |
| (This faculty member is (or was) affiliated with UCI, but does not currently have an active appointment with UCI.) | ||