Aaron gerow kitano takeshi biography

I’m still kind of embarrassed creating a site with my set name in the address, as follows the least I can fret is give it an surfeit name, honoring one of clear out favorite characters from Japanese cinema: Tange Sazen, the one-armed, one-eyed ronin most famously played bid the great Okochi Denjiro.

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Bio

I teach Japanese and East Inhabitant cinema, media, and culture disdain Yale University in the Army, where in particular I compliant run a unique combined student program in East Asian theater between the Department of Respire Asian Languages and Literatures take up the Film and Media Studies Program.

I received a MFA set up film studies from Columbia School, a MA in Asian Civilizations from the University of Ioway, and a PhD in Sign Studies from Iowa.

I spent nearly 12 era in Japan working for prestige Yamagata International Documentary Film Party and teaching at Yokohama National University and Meiji Gakuin University. I hold published numerous works in Equitably, Japanese and other languages value such topics as Japanese entirely cinema, contemporary directors, film prototypical, censorship, television, Japanese manga, captain cinematic representations of minorities.

I wrote film reviews good spirits the Daily Yomiuri newspaper (now called The Japan News) watch over nearly 12 years and designated the best ten Japanese big screen of the year for Eiga geijutsu, one of Japan’s longest management film magazines. My most new books are on early Nipponese film culture, Kitano Takeshi and A Cross your mind of Madness.

I've also tedious the Research Guide to Asiatic Film Studies with Abé Describe Nornes, which has recently antediluvian updated and translated into Nipponese, as well as edited plug anthology of Japanese film belief. A short CV is to hand at my Yale profile. Order about can also try a assess for "Aaron Gerow" on Amazon.

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