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● Jennifer COATES Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Japanese Film Studies
Research Topic: Re-writing History: Women and War Memory in Japanese Film 1945-1979
Short Introduction
Jennifer became interested in Japanese popular culture while studying History of Art at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow was home to architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who drew heavily on Japanese art and architecture for inspiration. Beginning with the ukiyo-e prints in Mackintosh's collection, Jennifer began to study Japanese art, becoming particularly interested in representations of women. This study led to a Masters in Japanese Art History at SOAS, and then two years study in Tokyo as a MEXT scholar at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Returning to London in 2010, Jennifer began a PhD on postwar Japanese cinema, using her Art History training to analyze representations of women during national crisis. She is particularly interested in viewers' responses to film, and in how film assists in creating national memories. For her Hakubi project, Jennifer intends to interview film fans who went to the cinema regularly between 1945-1979. Please contact Jennifer if you'd like to she your memories of Japanese cinema!
Latest News
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Dec. 11, 2017
Jennifer Coates published“The Fragmented Family on Film; Kinoshita Keisuke's Nihon no Higeki and the Antecedents of the Contemporary Fragmented Family in Japan”in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, issue 40, 2017.
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Dec. 11, 2017
Jennifer Coates published“Socializing the Audience: Going to the Cinema in Post-war Japan”in Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 14 (2),November 2017, pp.590-607.
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Dec. 11, 2017
Jennifer Coates published“Gambling with the National Image: Heroines of the Japanese Yakuza Film, 1955-1975”in Japanese Studies, 37 (3), 2017, pp.353-369.
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Dec. 11, 2017
Jennifer Coates gave a talk on "Cinematic ethno-history as a grounded theory of affect", at the 116 American Association of Anthropology Conference, Washington DC, November 29-December 3.
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Dec. 11, 2017
Jennifer Coates gave a talk on "Reverting to Type: Repetition and Female Representation in Classical Japanese Cinema" at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, November 27.
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Dec. 11, 2017
Jennifer Coates gave a talk on "That Feeling Without Words: Growing Up in the Cinemas of Post-war Japan" at the School of Culture, History, and Language, The Australian National University, September 8.
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Oct. 20, 2016
Jennifer Coates published 'Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964'(Hong Kong University Press)
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Oct. 20, 2016
Jennifer Coates published "How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Female Film Stars and the Housewife Role in Post-war Japan," in the U.S.-Japan Women's Journal no. 50, pp. 29-53.
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Oct. 20, 2016
Jennifer Coates gave a paper on "Imported Trends on Japanese Bodies: American Aesthetics in Post-war Japanese Cinema" at the 2nd Japan Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)(24-25 September, 2016)
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Nov. 25, 2015
Jennifer Coates gave a talk on "Masculinity and Fatherliness in Japanese Cinema" at the Bristol-Heidelberg-Kyoto Symposium (5-7th November 2015, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK).
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Nov. 25, 2015
Jennifer Coates gave a talk on "Mediating memory: The‘presumed shared experience’of war trauma in classical narrative Japanese cinema" at the 1st Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures (14-17 October, Millersville University, Pennsylvania, USA).
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Jul. 1, 2015
Jennifer Coates gave a paper on "Selling Gender Equality in Postwar Japan: Is Cinema Helping or Hurting?" at the 3rd AAS in Asia Conference (25th June, Academica Sinica, Taiwan, Taipei).
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Jul. 1, 2015
Jennifer Coates gave a paper on "Circular Thinking: The Yamanote Line on Film" at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Conference (26-29th March 2015, Sheraton Hotel, Chicago).
