PhD guidance

[mjraine at uchicago.edu]

Thanks to Aaron and Joanne for fleshing out the list of
graduate programs for studying Japanese film. Perhaps
KineJapan should develop some kind of web page with (brief!)
descriptions of the various options. 

In answer to the original question: Chicago now has in place a
joint PhD program in East Asian Cinema. There are over a dozen
students in Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages
and Civilizations working toward dissertations on Chinese,
Japanese, and/or Korean cinema. There's a short description here: 
http://ealc.uchicago.edu/joint_program.shtml. 

Always happy to answer questions by email. 

Michael

---- Original message ----
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>Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 16:16:48 -0400
>From: <dburall1 at rochester.rr.com>  
>Subject: Re: Ph D Guidance  
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>
>A couple of other possibilities Aaron has forgotten below
(universities with recognized Japanese cinema scholars--I am
sure more will come to mind as soon as I send this, it's a
rapidly growing field):
>
>Concordia (Catherine Russell)
>Arizona State University (Sybil Thornton)
>University of Rochester
>
>I'm at the University of Rochester, where you have several
options for graduate work as well. One asset here is UR's
close proximity to and formal collaboration with the George
Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
The holdings of the Motion Picture Department are extensive:
the archive is one of the four largest in the country (the
others are UCLA, LOC, and MoMA).
>
>Best of luck,
>
>Joanne Bernardi
>
>---- Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote: 
>> I've answered this question before, so here is a recycling
of the  
>> last time I did this.
>> 
>> If you are also thinking about the United States or Canada,
there are  
>> a number of places you can look into. Primarily that would
involve  
>> investigating the universities where a recognized Japanese
film  
>> scholar teaches (most belong to this list). Here is just a
brief  
>> list, in no particular order other than I put our program
first:
>> 
>> Yale University (we have a separate PhD program in East
Asian cinema)
>> University of Michigan (Mark Nornes)
>> University of Chicago (Michael Raine)
>> New York University (Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto)
>> University of Minnesota (Mark Anderson)
>> University of Oregon (Daisuke Miyao)
>> University of Kansas (Michael Baskett)
>> McGill University (Tom Lamarre)
>> University of Florida (Maureen Turim, Scott Nygren, Joe Murphy)
>> University of Toronto (Eric Cazdyn)
>> Carleton University (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano)
>> University of Southern California (Anne McKnight, Akira Lippit)
>> University of California, Irvine (Jonathan Hall)
>> 
>> (Forgive me if I omitted anything or if anything is out of
date. Send  
>> in your own program if I've forgotten it.)
>> 
>> These can be quite different programs and possibilities
(some are  
>> only MAs), but do some web surfing and also write to these
people.  
>> Most will have some form of financial aid for doctoral
students,  
>> though the level can vary depending on the institution. You
can also  
>> try some of the top schools for film studies or Japan
studies that  
>> currently do not have a Japan film specialist (Berkeley,
Wisconsin,  
>> etc.) and do some of your studies on your own (that is what
a lot of  
>> us had to do).
>> 
>> By the way, the description of the Yale program is here:
>> 
>> http://www.yale.edu/eall/combined.html
>> 
>> Happy hunting!
>> 
>> Aaron Gerow
>> Assistant Professor
>> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Yale University
>> 53 Wall Street, Room 316
>> PO Box 208363
>> New Haven, CT 06520-8363
>> USA
>> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
>> Fax: 1-203-432-6764
>> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
>> 
>> 
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