This cross-disciplinary study intends to establish a bridge connecting architecture and cinema. Space, as one of the most important concepts in modern architecture, is where my interests started. Cinema, as a newborn technology in the late nineteenth century and a significant art form in the twentieth century, has enriched our understandings on spa...
Technological change and development have been ongoing in the motion picture industry since its beginnings some 125 years ago. What further advancements of digitalization can be expected over the next decade and what are its implications for the industry’s value chain? To answer this question, we conducted an international two-stage Delphi study. T...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Background: Among different ways of coping with the unsettling situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, a very peculiar one has been identified: a more frequent request, by the general population, of movies or TV series related to the very theme of viruses, contagions, and epidemics. Objectives: The aim of the present study was to explore this peculiar ...
特集 : 山本明コレクション / 福家崇洋, 上田学 編 / Special Issue: the Yamamoto Akira Collection / 本研究は, 1950年に発足した全神戸映画サークル協議会が, 映画館の地域性とどのように結びついていたのかを, 京都大学人文科学研究所が所蔵する山本明コレクションの関連資料から明らかにしたものである。第1章で映画サークル協議会の地域性という問題の所在と先行研究について述べ, 第2章で全神戸映画サークル協議会が, 1950年代後半の映画サークル運動の停滞期にみせた, 自主上映運動という本流とは異なる, 映画批評の革新を求める独自の動きを紹介した。第3章で, 山本明コレクションに含まれる全神戸映画サークル協議会の発行誌の多様性をまとめ, 『泉...
"Science Fiction Against the Margins" explores what takes place when the science fiction genre extends outside of Hollywood and into independent filmmaking productions that foreground cultural difference, political injustice, and social inequality. Sci-fi films are typically dominated by Hollywood's action-driven melodramas and state-of-the-art spe...
Published in Journal of Chinese Film Studies
This paper introduces soft power as a political construct and thus questions its relevance to cinema. Rather than seeing movies as representatives of soft power in and of themselves, cinema is an instrument whereby soft power is projected – a tool rather than a resource. The paper argues that cinema is an example of “soft power by accident”, meanin...
Published in Journal of Chinese Film Studies
Japanese interests in Chinese cinema go as far back as to the 1910s, when film magazines reported on the situation of Chinese cinema. Discussions of Chinese cinema began to flourish in the 1920s, when intellectuals wrote travelogue essays on Chinese cinema, particularly on Shanghai cinema. In the mid-1930s, more serious analytical discourses were p...
Research on media sustainability has a long tradition of criticising climate change and environmental issues, mainly through content, and while it is important to do so, it seems that the sector is oblivious to the impact that it itself generates. Moreover, sustainability is often (and wrongly) only related to environmental impact, and very little ...
Resumo Nas histórias literárias do Ocidente, a ideia de natureza foi vinculada ao problema do pertencimento. As questões relativas ao espaço originário se desdobram em outras demandas para a crítica literária. Em gestos que tentam encenar questões do pertencimento-não pertencimento ao espaço, os trabalhos de Josely Vianna Baptista e Lucrecia Martel...
This chapter proposes an analysis of Joe Wright’s 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement. In particular it looks at how one of the novel’s major theme of storytelling and what Alistair Cormack calls ‘the ethics of fiction’ translates to the cinematic medium. How, it asks, is Briony’s problematic (re)writing of the past in Atonement co...
