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Profile
Rea Amit is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. He has published mainly on Asian media, aesthetics, and theory in journals such as Philosophy East and West, Positions: Asia Critique, Participations: International Journal of Audience Research, and On_Culture – The Open Journal for the Study of Culture, as well as publishing several book chapters in edited volumes.
Selected Publications
“Minding the Gap: Adaption of and Mental Disability in Quite Life (1990, 1995),” in Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan (eds.), All in Mind: Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media (Lexington Books) (forthcoming)
“Converging on Love and Indifference: Mediated Otherness in South and East Asia,” in Hyesu Park (ed.), Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020)
“Visions of Trans-Asian Orientalism: Indo-Japanese Cinematic Plagiarism, Misrepresentations, and Voluntary Blindness,” in Marcos P. Centeno-Martín and Norimasa Morita (eds.), Japan beyond its Borders: Transnational Approaches to Film and Media (Chiba: Seibunsha, 2020)
“What is Japanese Cinema? Imamura Taihei`s Wartime Theory of Film, Tradition, and Art,” Positions Vol. 27, No. 4 (2019)
“Programing a Public Mediascape: Distribution and the Japanese Motion Pictures Experience,” On_Culture – The Open Journal for the Study of Culture (Issue 8: Winter 2019)
“The Right to Misunderstand Japanese Cinema: Tsurumi Shunsuke, Imamura Taihei and Muthu, the Dancing Maharaja,” New Ideas in East Asian Studies (2017)
“Shall we Dance, Rajni? The Japanese Cult of Kollywood.” Participations: International Journal of Audience Research. Vol 14, No. 2 (2017)
Education
Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies combined with East Asian Languages & Literatures. Yale University. 2016
M.A. & M. Phil. in Film and Media Studies combined East Asian Languages & Literatures. Yale University. 2014
M.F.A. in Aesthetics. Tokyo University of the Arts. 2010
Teaching Schedule for Spring 2023
JAPN 4970 Japanese Language and Society, Part 2
MLLL 3633 Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
