Aaron Gerow is professor of East Asian Cinema and Culture at Yale University and has published widely on a variety of topics in Japanese film, media, and popular culture. His books include Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 (2010); A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan (2008); and Kitano Takeshi (2007).