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21G.593

Japanese Media Cultures

3-0-10 units. HASS-H; CI-H · Undergraduate

Examines storytelling media in twentieth and twenty-first century Japan, situating emerging media aesthetics and practices alongside broader shifts in cultural and social life. Engages with pivotal works in a wide range of media including film, literature, anime, manga, and video games, as well as critical concepts in Japanese media studies. Taught in English with a project that requires research in Japanese. Preference to Japanese minors.

Fall 2013 · Japanese Literature and Cinema

This course surveys both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such as the classical era, the samurai age, wartime Japan and the atomic bombings, social change in the postwar period, and the appropriation of foreign cultural themes, with an emphasis on the modern period. Directors include Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Teshigahara. Authors include Kobo Abe and Yukio Mishima. Films shown have subtitles in English. Taught in English.

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Prerequisites & course information

Subject meets with 21G.065[J] , CMS.354[J] Prereq: 21G.504 or permission of instructor Acad Year 2027-2028: Not offered Acad Year 2028-2029: U (Spring) 3-0-10 units. HASS-H; CI-H

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