Reseach and Teaching Interests:

 

History as told on film; audiovisual representations of history

Late Edo-period and Bakumatsu-era Japanese history

Japan's national heroes and founding myths

Twentieth-century cultural history of Japan

Japanese interwar, wartime and early postwar cinema

Contemporary Japanese visual culture, anime

East Asian cinema and TV dramas

Modern Chinese history and history as myth

Wartime propaganda in the U.S., Germany and Japan

Transnational connections between cinemas of East Asia