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Kitamura Lab
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A lab that approaches film as art and images in society from a historical perspective.
AboutAbout the lab
Film as art, and images in society
The Kitamura Lab thinks about film as art and about images found in society.
It explores the relationships between images and culture, and between media and society, from a historical perspective.
In addition to film studies, it draws on cultural representation studies, media studies, and historical sociology.
It has dealt with themes such as film actresses and stars, popular culture, gender, and censorship.
Key terms
- Cultural representation studies
- A field that reads what works such as film, photography, and literature represent and how they do so
- Media studies
- A field that considers how media such as film and television relate to society and to the way people see things
- Historical sociology
- A field that investigates how social structures and people's consciousness have changed over history
ResearchResearch themes
The lab explores the relationships between images and culture, and between media and society, from a historical perspective. Using film studies, cultural representation studies, media studies, and historical sociology as methods, it takes up film actresses and stars, popular culture, gender, censorship, and more.
*Illustrative imageWomen's Gaze in Japanese Cinema
Film has long been made from a male perspective. By reading works by women directors such as Kinuyo Tanaka, Naomi Kawase, and Miwa Nishikawa, and how actresses are filmed in Mikio Naruse's films, this theme re-examines the history of Japanese cinema through women's eyes.
*Illustrative imageHistorical Sociology of Film Stars
In the era when studios kept actors under contract and made films, how was stars' "fame" created, and how did it change? This theme traces that shift and explores the relationship between popular culture and society.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKyohhei KitamuraPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “35mm cinema release print” LDGE / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Women's Gaze in Japanese Cinema: “029 Onchi Koshiro Movie Theater 1929” Kōshirō Onchi / Public domain (cropped)
- Historical Sociology of Film Stars: “Yuraku Eiga Gekijo” Nissy-KITAQ / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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