Fwd: PhD Scholarships in Japanese Film

[Aaron Gerow]

Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Irena Hayter <I.Hayter at leeds.ac.uk>
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> New Scholarships in Japanese Film:
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> Application deadline 30 April 2009
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> A new network 'Mixed Cinema: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural
> Approaches to Japanese Cinema' has been awarded 3 PhD studentships
> from the White Rose University Consortium. The network, led by
> Professor Lucia Nagib (Centre for World Cinemas, University of Leeds),
> includes Dr Jonathan Rayner and Dr Mika Ko (University of Sheffield),
> Professor Andrew Tudor and Professor Duncan Petrie (University of
> York) and Dr Irena Hayter (University of Leeds).
>
> Research focus
> Andre Bazin once coined the term 'impure cinema' to signify cinema's
> mixed nature, which incorporates aesthetic devices and narrative
> strategies of all other arts. Drawing on this inclusive concept, the
> 'Mixed Cinema Network' will look at the cinema as a fundamentally
> interdisciplinary area of study, further enriched by an intercultural
> aspect deriving from its origin as an industrial and transnational
> medium. Japanese cinema is a case in point, as it emerged from the
> kabuki theatre and evolved on the basis of unrestricted borrowing from
> dance, literature and visual arts. More recently, Japanese cinema has
> turned to international co-productions with other Asian countries,
> which resulted in an enhanced intercultural dialogue. By addressing
> Japanese cinema through its interdisciplinary and intercultural
> elements, the network will contribute a novel approach which, rather
> than reinforcing traditional East-West, centre-periphery,
> Hollywood-World Cinema and other binary oppositions, will tackle the
> complexities of intermingled identities, aesthetics and social
> concerns cinema can reflect in a multipolar world.
>
> White Rose Studentships
> White Rose Studentships arise from the special relationship between
> the three White Rose Universities: University of Leeds, University of
> Sheffield and University of York.  The studentships are collaborative
> in nature, and each studentship involves supervisors from two of the
> White Rose Universities (the principal supervisor at the lead
> institution and the co-supervisor at the partner institution).
> Students register at one of the three universities and have access to
> the full research network which spans all three universities.
>
> Studentships Available within the Network
> 'Artistic and intercultural dialogue in the Japanese cinema of the  
> 1960s-70s'
> Professor Lucia Nagib, School of Modern Languages and Cultures,
> University of Leeds
> Dr Mika Ko, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
> Project Details:
> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rds/postgraduate_scholarships/ProjectForm-LS- 
> Nagib.doc
> Application form (Leeds)
> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rds/postgraduate_scholarships/wrs-app.doc
>
> 'Japanese Widescreen Cinema:Technology Commerce and Aesthetics'
> Dr Jonathan Rayner, English Literature, University of Sheffield
> Professor Duncan Petrie, Department of Film, Theatre and Television,
> University of York
> Project details http://www.shef.ac.uk/pgresearch/studentships/ 
> jrayner.html
> Studentship information and how to apply at Sheffield:
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/pgresearch/studentships/whiterose0910.html
>
> 'Cinema and Japanese Modernity'
> Professor Andrew Tudor, Department of Film, Theatre and Television,
> University of York
> Dr Irena Hayter, School of Modern Languages and Cultures,  
> University of Leeds
> Project details and how to apply at York:
> http://www.york.ac.uk/graduatestudy/finance/white_rose.htm
>
> Irena Hayter
> University of Leeds
>