Daisuke Miyao
Assistant Professor, Japanese
Ph.D., 2003, NYU
Email: dmiyao@uoregon.edu
Interests:
My teaching and research interests cover film studies, Japanese studies, Asian studies, American studies, Asian-American studies, and cultural studies. Considering cinema to be a transnational cultural form from the very beginning of its history and, simultaneously, to be a national cinema, formed by specific discourses on nationalism and modernization, I am currently conducting research on film stardom in the silent film period. With close textual analyses of films and with extensive use of transnational archival resources in various languages including film scripts, film trade journals, fan magazines, and newspapers, I am locating the formation and the reception/appropriation of the transnational stardom of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor, in specific historical and geographical contexts.
Selected Publications:
Book: Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (Durham: Duke UP). Forthcoming.
Edited Book: Abe Kasho, Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano (New York: Kaya, 2004). "Forward" also by Miyao.
Translated Book: Yoshida Kiju, Ozu's Anti-Cinema (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2003). "Translator's Introduction" also by Miyao.
"Dark Visions of Japanese Film Noir: Suzuki Seijun's Branded to Kill (1967)." Japanese Film: Texts and Contexts, eds. Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer (London: Routledge). Forthcoming.
"Global Hollywood." Gendai Amerika no kiwado [Keywords in contemporary America], ed. Mari Yoshihara and Yujin Yaguchi (Tokyo: Chuo koron sha). Forthcoming.
"Japan Boom." Genten Amerika shi [Original documents in American history], ed. Takeshi Igarashi (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten). Forthcoming.
"Hariuddo eiga, haken no seiritsu: Chito ni miru 'kotenteki Hariuddo eiga' no sutairu to ideorogi [Hollywood cinema, the emergence of hegemony: The style and ideology of 'Classical Hollywood Cinema' in The Cheat]." Amerika bunka shi nyumon [Introduction to American Cultural History], ed. Shunsuke Kamei (Tokyo: Showado). Forthcoming.
"Telephilia vs. Cinephilia = Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano?" Framework 45.2 (Fall 2004): 56-61.
"Triple Consciousness: Sessue Hayakawa at Haworth Pictures Corporation." Pacific and American Studies 2 (March 2002): 129-45.
"Before Anime: Animation and The Pure Film Movement in Prewar Japan." Japan Forum 14.2 (2002): 191-209.
"Blue vs. Red: Takeshi Kitano's Color Scheme." Post Script: Essays in Film and Humanities 18.1 (Fall 1998): 112-27.
"Doubleness: American Images of Japanese Men in Silent Spy Films." The Japanese Journal of American Studies 9 (1998): 69-95.
"Whatever Happened to The Grapes of Wrath?: Hollywood's Mythmaking in the 1930s." Chiiki Bunka Kenkyu [Area Studies, University of Tokyo] 12 (Jan. 1997): 55-81.
"Sessue Hayakawa a Movie Star: Early Hollywood and the Japanese." Amerika Kenkyu [American Studies, The Japanese Association for American Studies] 30 (1996): 227-46.