<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Everyone,<br><br>I hope you're all doing well and looking forward to the weekend!</div><div><br>I'm posting to share some weekend reading - this great interview with Julia Alekseyeva about her new book Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s.The interview gives a great overview of the book, but also locates its arguments in close relationship to our contemporary political moment, which I think will be really useful for those of us planning to teach from it. I'm planning to assign the interview along with an excerpt from the book so that students can have a bit of a 'meet the author' experience, and we can discuss not only the scholarship within the book but also the production of scholarship more broadly.<div><br></div><div>Here's the interview: <a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/02/film-anti-fascism-documentary-1960s" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2025/02/film-anti-fascism-documentary-1960s</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations Julia!</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Professor Jennifer Coates<br>Professor of Japanese Studies<br>Departmental Director of Research & Innovation (DDRI) <br>School of East Asian Studies (SEAS)<br>University of Sheffield<br>Office 4.21, Floor 4, Jessop West, 1 Upper Hanover St, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7RA<br><br><font color="#000000">Recent articles:</font><div><span><a href="https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/65/3/352/7762881?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=screen&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=a696e632-e007-4a4b-87a6-049eef6837bb" target="_blank"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Coates, J.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">2024. “Aging, Personhood, and Care in Chie Hayakawa’s </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Plan 75 </span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">(2022)” </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Screen </span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Volume 65 (3): 352-372.</span></font></a></span></div><div><div><a href="https://apjjf.org/2023/6/Coates.html" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Coates, J. 2023. "Voices from an Unusual Archive: University Film Circle Writings, 1945-1960," The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Volume 21: Issue 6: Number 3, Article ID 5777.</font></a></div><div><font color="#000000">Recent books:</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-23918-2" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Buchheim, E. and Coates, J. 2023. <i>War Memory and East Asian Conflicts, 1930–1945. </i>Palgrave Macmillan.</font></a><br></font><div><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-film-viewing-in-postwar-japan-1945-1968-an-ethnographic-study.html" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Coates, J. 2022. <i>Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study.</i> Edinburgh University Press.</font></a><br><br>ORCID: 0000-0003-4326-1481</div></div></div></div></div></div>