Japanese poster for movie\, Le Samouraï<
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21 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Professor Daisuke Miyao
(Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Ja
panese Language and Literature at the University of California\, San Diego)
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< span style="color: #ff0000\;">Thank you to everyone who attended! The re cording can be viewed on YouTube via this link here.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=_V_pV6b_W_s[/embed]
Date & Time:
Monday\, February 1 | 5:30pm
(PST)
Monday\, February 1 | 8:30pm (EST)
Tuesday\, February 2 | 9
:30am (CST)
Locati
on:
Online via Zoom
Presented in English
Free & open to the public. Registration required.
Lect ure abstract:
French New Wave\, the art film movement that e merged in the late-1950s France\, had a curious obsession with Japan. C ahiers du Cinéma’s adoration of Mizoguchi Kenji\, Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour (1959)\, Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983 ) to name a few. By focusing on Jean-Pierre Melville’s acclaimed 1967 film< em> Le Samouraï\, this talk examines what Melville’s allusion to the s amurai seeks to signify. Despite its title\, Le Samouraï is not a jidaigeki (period drama) set in Japan but a story of Jef Costello\ , a contract killer in Paris in the 1960s. Melville’s conception did not on ly exist in the context of post-World War II France but also descended from the history of Japonisme in France since the nineteenth century.
About the speaker:
Daisuke Miya
o is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and
Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. He is the author of
Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (Duke University Press
\, 2020)\, Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies<
/em> (University of Hawai’i Press\, 2019)\, The Aesthetics of Shadow: L
ighting and Japanese Cinema (Duke University Press\, 2013)\, Eiga
wa neko dearu: Hajimete no cinema sutadizu (Heibonsha\, 2011)\, and
About the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies:
John Howes was a founding memb er of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, which he joined in 1961 after ear ning his doctorate from Columbia University. During his 30 years of active teaching and research\, Professor Howes was at the forefront of Canada-Japa n cultural\, educational and people-to-people relations and inspired countl ess young Canadians to dedicate their careers and lives to the Canada-Japan relationship in one way or another. In 2012\, a number of UBC faculty\, st aff\, and Professor Howes’ devoted former students came together to launch an endowment in his honour. The fund supports the John Howes Lec ture in Japanese Studies\, an annual public lecture for prominent schol ars from around the world to speak to the university community and alumni o n topics in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humanities. Dr. Howes passed a way peacefully on February 4th\, 2017\, at the age of 92.
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