The Image Becomes You Representation and ‘Self’-Discovery in Kinoshita Keisuke

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The Image Becomes You Representation and ‘Self’-Discovery in Kinoshita Keisuke

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Earl Jackson–Associate Professor Emeritus from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Professor Emeritus from National Chiao Tung University–presented a lecture on Japanese cinema. He explored the affective relationship between images and the idea of the self in a number of Japanese films, including theThe Portrait (1948) and Here’s to the Young Lady (1949). In the former, for example, he demonstrates how a young woman, Midori, gradually moves from posing for the artist who is painting her portrait to posing for herself.

Dr. Jackson is the author of Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation, and numerous essays on Japanese and Korean Cinemas, sexuality, New Narrative writers, and the work of Samuel R. Delany. He is the co-editor, with Victor Fan of Nang 7: The Scent of Boys, and the contributing co-editor, with David Desser, of The Cinema of Kinoshita Keisuke. Times of Joy and Sorrow (Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press). He has worked on Korean independent films as dramaturg, line producer, editor, and actor. His monograph, Critical Conditions: Theory and Practice in Japanese Cinema, is now under contract.