Miriam Hansen

[Abraheme Hassan]

May she Rest In Peace, Amen. I admire her work whole-heartedly.

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:

> This has been spreading around the net, but the great film scholar at the
> University of Chicago, Miriam Hansen, has passed away. Although she never
> really worked on Japanese cinema, her concept of vernacular modernism, one
> that was developed in part through a study of early Chinese Cinema, had a
> great influence on many of us studying Japan. Citations of her book on early
> cinema, Babel and Babylon, are spread throughout my book, Visions of
> Japanese Modernity. She will be missed.
>
> This great post on her work has already appeared. There's a lot you can
> read:
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> http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2011/02/incarnation-of-modern-in-memory-of.html
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>   Aaron Gerow
> Associate Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies
> Yale University
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