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Time & Location

December 9, 7pm EST
Online

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About

This event is presented as part of JFF Plus: Online Festival.

Japan has produced one of the world’s most fascinating national cinemas, and the Japanese view of the natural world permeates film. Images are used to project the Japanese perception of nature, be it subtly or overtly, and the resulting cinematic collages offer a fascinating look at the relationship between the people and their surroundings. This talk will consider how film acts as a vehicle for cultural representations of nature and what might be distinctive about Japanese films.

The talk is co-organized by the Japan Foundation and Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

Speaker

Eileen B. Mikals-Adachi is an Associate Professor of Japanese at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. Mikals-Adachi is the first recipient of a Ph.D. in Modern Japanese Literature from Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, and she has been teaching courses on Japanese language, literature, culture and cinema for over thirty years. Her main area of expertise is Japanese women writers, but her present focus of interest is natural and supernatural elements in Japanese literature and cinema.

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