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Position

Former Visiting Professor

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Field

Film Studies

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Tell me about your research briefly.

-The title of my study is 'Japanese Cinema in the Post-Studio Era: Neo-Liberal Economies of Production and the Death of the Auteur.' In the post-studio era, changes in film funding and government policy have had a huge impact on film content. The immediate consequences of which are twofold; contemporary Japanese films receive little critical acclaim internationally (Kore'eda withstanding); and, concomitantly, independent film production is minimal as the major publishing houses and television studios dominate film production leading to an homogenization of content around the 'talent' system dominated by Jonny's Agency, popular novels and anime. Underlying my study is the theoretical work and the critical writings of Theodore Adorno. Put simply, his writings frame the debate within a political discourse - is film 'art' or an industry? If 'art' should it challenge the status quo or provide audiences with a temporary palliative to the woes of contemporary life?

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