[KineJapan] Japanese comedies...

[Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan]

At the risk of sounding thoroughly out-of-touch (entirely possible, as I most certainly am!)--why oh why are there so few scholarly works on Japanese comedies? And not only Japanese comedies; it seems as though comedy cinema and humour in general are out-of-bounds for academic research: too light, too frivolous, too transient...

I've come across only one journal dedicated to comedy--"Warai gaku kenkyu." As worthwhile as it is, it can't be the "only" venue for scholars interested in comedy? 

Japanese directors have produced some truly great comedies. From droll and dry to madcap and silly, frenetic to deadpan... Is the academic mood really that comedy is too frivolous to study? Or maybe we don't want to kill the humour through analytical interpretation--we keep our favourite comedies to ourselves...

Just some late-spring musings...

Best,


Tim Iles
University of Victoria
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