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Chair of the Dept. of Screen Arts and Cultures

• Affiliation(s)

  • Chair, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures
  • Professor of Asian Cinema, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Professor, School of Art & Design
  • Center for Japanese Studies
  • Center for Chinese Studies
  • Nam Center for Korean Studies

• About

  Research Interests
  Abé Markus Nornes is Professor of Asian Cinema in both the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Most of his work is on Japanese cinema, particularly the documentary tradition. He has recently been publishing on Chinese documentary as well. His current research project is on calligraphy in East Asian cinema. Other projects include an edited volume on the pink cinema of Japan and a reader of Japanese film theory in translation.

  Recent Courses Taught
  Japanese Cinema - A historical survey from the beginning of cinema to the present.
  Dialogue of Violence: Pacific War Cinema and its Contexts - Examines the war cinemas of the US and Japan. 
  Seminar in the Theory and Practice of Documentary
  Seminar in Cultural and Comparative Studies of Asia

   

• Education

  • PhD, Cinema/Television and Critical Studies, University of Southern California, 1996
  • MA, Cinema/Television and Critical Studies, University of Southern California, 1990
  • BA, Cinema Studies, St. Olaf College, 1986

• Awards

  • Faculty Research Grant for Taiwan Studies, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2011)
  • Visiting Professorship, Fudan University, Shanghai, PRC (2010)
  • Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese studies, Harvard University (2008-2009)
  • Japan Foundation Research Fellow, Tokyo, Japan (2004-2005)
  • Fulbright Research Fellow, Tokyo, Japan (1999-2000)

• Grants

  • Korea Foundation Research Grant (2000)
  • Excellence in Education Award, University of Michigan (1999)

• Presentations

  • “The Reception of the Japanese New Wave in American Film Criticism,” Meiji Gakuin Daigaku, Japan (2012)
  • “Translating Calligraphy,” Keynote Speech, Art in Translation Conference, University of Iceland (2012)
  • “Yamagata—Asia—Europe: The International Film Festival Short-Circuit,” Kinema Club XI, Vienna (2011)

• Research Areas of Interest

  • Teaches Asian cinema, specializing in the film and video of China and Japan.

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2009) A Research Guide to Japanese Cinema Studies
  • (2007) Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema
  • (2007) Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary
  • (2003) Japanese Documentary Film: From the Meiji Era to Hiroshima

• Articles

  • (2009) Bulldozers, Bibles, and Very Sharp Knives: The Chinese Independent Documentary Scene, Film Quarterly
  • (1999) Toward an Abusive Subtitling: Illuminating Cinema’s Apparatus of Translation, Film Quarterly
  • (1999) Pôru Rûta and the Politics of Translation, Cinema Journal
  • (1996) The Body at the Center: The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the nuclear image in Japanese film
  • Archive of Writings by A. M. Nornes , 1989 - Present