Lecture - Aaron Gerow
In the framework of DISSENT !, an initiative of Courtisane, Auguste Orts and Argos.
Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
In the framework of DISSENT !, an initiative of Courtisane, Auguste Orts and Argos.
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).