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Screening Social Change: Investigating the Impact of Cinema on Viewer Attitudes and Memories in Japan 1945-1960

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K16747
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Art at large
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

Coates Jennifer  京都大学, 白眉センター, 特定助教 (10738230)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Discontinued (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
KeywordsFilm Studies / Japanese Studies / Postwar / Memory / Film / Japan / Audience studies / Kansai / 芸術諸学 / 美学 / 美術史 / 哲学 / 日本史
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

This research investigated the impact of Japanese cinema on public attitudes and memory during the first 15 years of postwar Japan. During the occupation, GHQ attempted to use the cinema to shape attitudes to social change. Did cinema really have such an impact, and if so, how did the cinema shape public attitudes in the years after occupation? Using an interdisciplinary approach combining archival research, iconographic analysis and audience interviews, I addressed this issue.
I produced a number of peer-reviewed journal articles on the topic, published in recognized research journals. I have also completed a documentary film titled When Cinema Was King, and a book manuscript titled Feelings Without Words: Growing Up with the Cinema in Postwar Japan.
I hosted an international symposium on the theme 'Cinema and Social Change in Japan' in 2017, inviting leading researchers on Japanese cinema from all over the world. From the conference papers, I developed a book proposal for an edited volume titled Politicization and De-Politicization in Japanese Visual Culture, now under consideration at Hong Kong University Press.
I was able to complete the research project in 2 years, and so I closed the project in March 2018.

Report

(2 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (26 results)

All 2018 2017 2016

All Journal Article (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Peer Reviewed: 10 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (7 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Journeys from the East: The Geopolitics of Film Motivated Chinese Tourism2018

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Journal Title

      International Journal of Tourism Anthropology

      Volume: 00 Pages: 000-000

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Circular Thinking: The Yamanote Line on Film2018

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Journal Title

      Japan Forum

      Volume: 30 Pages: 224-239

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Mediating Memory: Shojo and War Memory in Classical Japanese Cinema2018

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Journal Title

      Cultural Studies

      Volume: 32 Pages: 105-125

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Socializing the Audience: Going to the Cinema in Post-war Japan2018

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Journal Title

      Participations

      Volume: 15 Pages: 56-72

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Journeys from the East: The Geopolitics of Film Motivated Chinese Tourism2018

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates, Jamie Coates, and Mary Mostafanezhad
    • Journal Title

      The International Journal of Tourism Anthropology

      Volume: 7 Pages: 34-57

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Socializing the Audience: Going to the Cinema in Post-war Japan2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Journal Title

      Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies

      Volume: 14 Pages: 590-607

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Gambling with the National Image: Heroines of the Japanese Yakuza Film, 1955- 19752017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Studies

      Volume: 37 Pages: 353-369

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Fragmented Family on Film; Kinoshita Keisuke's Nihon no Higeki and the Antecedents of the Contemporary Fragmented Family in Japan2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Journal Title

      Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific

      Volume: 40 Pages: 000-000

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report 2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Female Film Stars and the Housewife Role in Postwar Japan2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Journal Title

      U.S.-Japan Women’s Journa

      Volume: 50 Pages: 29-53

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Circular Thinking: The Yamanote Line on Film2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Journal Title

      Japan Forum

      Volume: 31 Pages: 1-28

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Locating the casual viewers of post-war Japanese cinema2018

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Organizer
      Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Occupation-era Cinema Audiences in Post-war Japan2018

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Organizer
      Cultures of Occupation: Establishing a Transnational Dialogue
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Youth and Power in Japan’s Nuclear Age: The Shojo in Classical Narrative Cinema2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Organizer
      Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Chicago Sheraton Millenium Park (USA)
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Creativity at the Margins2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Organizer
      Creativity and the Creative Industries Workshop
    • Place of Presentation
      Doshisha University, Kyoto
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-06
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Cinematic ethno-history as a grounded theory of affect2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Organizer
      American Anthropological Association Annual Conference
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Incorporating the Audience Perspective: Reception Studies and Grounded Theory in Japanese Cinema2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Organizer
      New Perspectives in Japanese Studies Conference, Kobe University
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Imported Trends on Japanese Bodies: American Aesthetics in Postwar Japanese Cinema2016

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Organizer
      European Association of Asian Studies Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Kobe University (Kobe shi)
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-24
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Gilles Deleuze Meets Yoshimoto Takaaki: Building a Theoretical Framework for the Study of Repetition in Japanese Visual Culture2016

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Organizer
      Kyoto-Bristol Symposium
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Bristol (UK)
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-25
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Media Keywords: Japan and Beyond2018

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Total Pages
      380
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-19642017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Total Pages
      244
    • Publisher
      Hong Kong University Press
    • ISBN
      9789888208999
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Companion to Japanese Cinema2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Total Pages
      295
    • Publisher
      Blackwell
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] The Handbook of Asian Cinema2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Total Pages
      187
    • Publisher
      Palgrave Macmillan
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Japan: Photography and Photographers2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Total Pages
      196
    • Publisher
      De Gruyter
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] The Japanese Cinema Book2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Total Pages
      403
    • Publisher
      British Film Institute
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 他者との邂逅は何をもたらすのか2017

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates
    • Total Pages
      267
    • Publisher
      昭和党
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Cinema and Social Change in Japan2017

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2018-12-17  

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