This is the first of three weeks designed around the CIMS Colloquium. We’ll have an opportunity to address the theories and concepts — including spectatorship and the “self” — and methods — including discourse analysis and ethnography — central to Professor Coates’s work.
NOON: CIMS COLLOQUIUM with Jennifer Coates, “Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-History,” 330 Fisher Bennett Hall
WE’LL MEET AT 4:30pm TODAY
VISITOR, 5-6:30pm: Jennifer Coates, Professor in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
TO PREPARE FOR TODAY:
- Read Jennifer Coates, “Introduction: Feelings Without Words” in Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study (Edinburgh University Press, 2022): 1-23.
- Watch Jennifer Coates, When Cinema Was King (2018) [independent documentary film, 24:42].
- Read Annette Kuhn, “Cinema Memory as Cultural Memory” in Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory (New York University Press, 2002).
- Please also spend some time perusing the “Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive” website.