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Vortrag Prof. Dr. Dan O'Neill (University of Berkeley, California):
"Fukushima and the Cinema of Slow Death"
Beitrag zur Nippon Connection 2015
Im Rahmen der Sonderveranstaltungen "Japan und Japanologie in der Post-Fukushima-Ära" sowie des
IZO-Projektes "Fukushima und globale nukleare Kulturen"
This paper will discuss the recent surge of documentary films on Fukushima. By focusing on the works of
Funahashi Atsushi, Fujiwara Toshi and others, I explore how these films respond to the ethical demands of the
disasters and address the political, cultural and economic aftermaths. As they take up the questions of scale and
representation, the films offer not only a critique of the ongoing discursive attempts to recalibrate “risk” but also an
orientation to the affective contours of ecological degradation, to the collective work of survival and belonging. As
a conclusion, I explore the reframing effects of these films within and beyond Japan in order to understand how the
cinema of Fukushima reimagines catastrophic relations in East Asia by bringing into the fold the entangled concerns
of nuclear energy and long-term sustainability.
Datum: 4. Juni 2015, 18 Uhr
Ort: Filmfestival Nippon Connection 2015, Mousonturm, Studio III
Academic Vita:
Daniel O’Neill received his Ph.D. in Japanese studies from Yale University. He teaches courses in modern Japanese
literature and popular culture. His research interests include the novel in comparative perspective, critical theory,
East Asian cinema and visual culture. O’Neill currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of East
Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley.
Publications and Work-in-Progress
Travel Writing in the Age of Japanese Modernism. This book project undertakes an analysis of the
modernist/colonial travelogues produced by Japanese writers in order to account for the coterminous life of
modernism and colonialism in the formation of the Japanese empire.
(Work-in-progress)
Ghostly Remains: Affect and the Afterlife of Reading in Modern Japan.
This study examines the survival of the atavistic figures of ghosts in Japan’s literary modernity, showing the ways in
which these representations of the supernatural constituted a complex enactment of modernity’s contradictions and
ambiguities in Japan. [Forthcoming, University of Hawaii Press]
“Cinematic Cruising: Goodbye Dragon Inn and the Strangely Moving Bodies of Taiwanese Cinema,” (7000 words)
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book chapter in Santiago Fouz-Hernandez (ed.), Mysterious Skin: The Male Body in Contemporary Cinema, I.B.
Tauris (2009).
“Masochism and Other Worldly Pleasures: Reading Natsume Sôseki’s Theory of Literature,” (9000 words) Discourse:
Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (2008).
“Mori Ôgai’s Seinen: Portrait of an Artist in Tokyo, circa 1910,”
(10,000 words) Japan Forum: The International Journal of Japanese Studies (2006).
geändert am 17. April 2015 E-Mail: [email protected]
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