Faculty Member, Film Studies
Yale University, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Professor
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Aaron Gerow is Professor of Japanese cinema in the Film Studies Program and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He has published widely in a variety of languages on early, wartime, and recent Japanese film, with a particular focus on issues of censorship, film reception, industrial history, representations of minorities, national cinema, film and modernity, war and cinema. documentary, and the politics of style. His monograph Kitano Takeshi was published by the British Film Institute in September 2007 and his monograph A Page of Madness by the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan in December 2008. He has co-authored theĀ Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies with Abe Mark Nornes. His newest book, Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925, was published in English by the University of California Press in 2010, with a Japanese version being prepared for the University of Tokyo Press. He is currently preparing manuscripts on the history of Japanese film theory and on 1990s Japanese film. He also manages the KineJapan mailing list on Japanese cinema.
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