Week 5★May 22nd TOKYO, OR ELSEWHERE

Required Reading

Catherine Russell (2002) “Tokyo, the movie”, Japan Forum, 14:2, 211-224, DOI: 10.1080/09555800220136365

Yomota, Inuhiko. (2003). “Stranger than Tokyo: Space and Race in Postnational Japanese Cinema”, Jenny Kwok Wah Lau eds. Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Pp76-89
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Films for Reference:

Ghost in the Shell, Dir. OSHII Mamoru, 1995

Swallowtail Butterfly, Dir. IWAI Shunji, 2008