[KineJapan] Fwd: Talk on the Japanese director Kaneto Shindo. Wednesday 25 January, 5-7pm room G3, SOAS

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Dear all,



Lauri Kitsnik (Sainsbury Institute) will give a talk on Kaneto Shindō at
SOAS on 26 February 5 –7 pm at G3, blurb copied below.

All are welcome.

With best wishes,

Marcos



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*War, work and witnessing: aesthetics and ideology in Shindō Kaneto’s
cinema*
*Speaker: Dr Lauri Kitsnik*


*Chair: Dr Marcos Centeno Wednesday 25 January, 5-7pm, room G3, SOAS*

Shindō Kaneto (1912-2012) was a prolific Japanese film director noted for
works such as *Children of Hiroshima* (1952), *The Naked Island* (1960) and
*Onibaba* (1964). He maintained an active and uninterrupted career for over
seventy years, perhaps the longest in the entire cinematic history. His
films have been both praised and criticised for their strong leftist agenda
when dealing with social issues such as crime, poverty, disease and
discrimination. However, there is currently a lack of consensus as to
whether his work displays enough thematic or stylistic unity to be
evaluated in auteurist terms. In this talk, by looking at Shindō’s films
from different decades, I argue that his visual style underlined by
excessive repetition effectively created a self-referencial system of
cumulative images which offers insights into his worldview in both
aesthetic and ideological terms.

Lauri Kitsnik (PhD Cantab) is Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in Norwich.
His research interests include international film history and theory,
literary adaptation and screenwriting. His work has appeared in the *Journal
of Japanese and Korean Cinema*, *Journal of Screenwriting* and *Women
Screenwriters: An International Guide*.

Dr Marcos Centeno is lecturer in film studies at SOAS, where he is also
convener of the MA degree ‘Global Cinemas and the Transcultural’. He has
been Research Associate at Waseda University (Japan) and Research Fellow at
the University of Valencia (Spain). His research currently focuses on
Japanese youth cinema, post-war avant-garde and documentary film – mainly
Susumu Hani’s theoretical and practical contributions, and film
representations of the Ainu people.

*The Centre for Film Studies is grateful to the Centre for Media Studies,
with whom we are co-host*


-- 
Marcos Centeno PhD

Lecturer in Film Studies
Convenor: MA Degree Global Cinemas and the Transcultural
Centre for Film Studies
Department of Japan and Korea
SOAS, University of London

ainumemoryfilm.com



-- 
Marcos Centeno PhD

Lecturer in Film Studies
Convenor: MA Degree Global Cinemas and the Transcultural
Centre for Film Studies
Department of Japan and Korea
SOAS, University of London

ainumemoryfilm.com
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