JAP4510 Japanese Popular Culture

 

General Theme: Contemporary Japanese Arts and Poetic Imagination

Lecturer: Professor Yomota Inuhiko (Meiji Gakuin University)

Assistance and Information: Dick Stegewerns

Time and place:

  • Monday 14:15 -16:00, Undervisningsrom 3 Georg Sverdrups hus
    Teaching: 1 March - 8 March and 22 March
  • Wednesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 1 Georg Sverdrups hus ( 3 March to 24 March)

 NB! On Monday 15 march, the lecture will take place in Rådssalen, Administration building (same time as the other Mondays)

Teaching Schedule:

March1   Godzilla and the Image of Disaster

March 2    16:30-18:30, Auditorium 2, main Library: What is 'Kawaii'? Japanese Contemporary Aesthetic of Cuteness, Sweetness and miniature.

March 3   Voluntary Blindness; The Melodramatic Imagination of Japan

March 8   Nakagami Kenji; A Novelist from the Outcast People

March 10  Ohno Kazuo; An Immortal Dancer of Butoh

March 15  Tamura Ryuichi; A Drunken poet

March 17  Eroticism in Japanese Art and Cinema

March 22  Okinawa; Representations of Another Side of Japan

March 23 Deadline for the qualifying assignment: handing in a paper proposal/outline including a list of sources.

March 24  Yoshimasu Gozo; A Poet and Performer

March 24  16:30-18:30, Auditorium 2, main Library: Mishima Yukio, A Samurai Artist in Postwar Japanese Society. Including film screening. 

 

The following lectures by Professor Yomota may also be of interest:

 

JAP 2501         Japanese Popular Culture

Sub-Theme:      A Brief History of Japanese Manga

Wednesdays, 14:15-16:00

March 3    Sugiura Shigeru and his Descendants

March 10  Tezuka Osamu

March 17  Shirato Sampei

March 24  Radicalism and Nostalgia after 1968; Mizuki Shigeru, Tsuge Yoshiharu, Hayashi Seiichi and others.

 

Evening Lectures at the Norwegian Film Institute (Filmhuset) on the following films:

March 9  Yoshida Kijū, Kagami no onnatachi (The Women in the Mirror)

March 13 Tsukamoto Shinya, Tetsuo

March 16 Terayama Shūji, Denen ni shisu (Pastoral Hide-and-Seek Street)

March 23 Wakamatsu Kōji, Jitsuroku Rengo Sekigun (United Red Army)

NOTE! Dates and times provisional. Check schedule of the Cinemateket.

 

Lecture during the Annual Conference of the Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society, University of Oslo

March 18 or 19  Kurosawa Akira at the Century

 

 

Published Nov. 24, 2009 5:11 AM - Last modified Mar. 15, 2010 3:08 PM