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Comic Legacies Of The Japanese Silver Screen, Aaron Gerow, Xavi Sawada, David Baasch, Eugene Kwon, Adam Silverman, Anna Tropnikova, Chloe Yan

Film Series Commentaries

Pamphlet created for the film series “Comic Legacies of the Japanese Silver Screen” presented at Yale University from February to April, 2024. Starting with an introduction outlining the history of Japanese film comedy, the pamphlet contains plot summaries and commentaries on the following films:

Buddhist Mass for Goemon Ishikawa (1930, Saitō Torajirō) Fighting Friends (1929, Ozu Yasujirō) Romantic and Crazy (1934, Yamamoto Kajirō) Singing Lovebirds (1939, Makino Masahiro) Akanishi Kakita (1936, Itami Mansaku) Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryō (1935, Yamanaka Sadao) Room for Rent (1959, Kawashima Yūzō) Doctor’s Day Off (1952, Shibuya Minoru) Oh, My Bomb! …

Teaching Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, Jack Ryan

Cinema & Media Studies Faculty Publications

This paper offers a method for students to connect with and study Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. This approach begins with the final credits, when director Jim Jarmusch’s “personal thanks” list appears onscreen: “Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Mary Shelley, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Seijun Suzuki, Jean-Pierre Melville, Miguel de Cervantes, Akira Kurosawa, and the Wu-Tang Clan.”

Presented at the Third Virtual Joint Conference of the Literature Film Association and the Association of Adaptation Studies (2024).

Hunter Cabiness | Thesd Hands, Hunter Cabiness, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Mohammad Abasi | I Love You, Mohammad Abasi, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Neil Hsiao | Double Sided, Neil Hsiao, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Ava Maghsoodlou | Regeneration, Ava Maghsoolou, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Kisaki Matsumoto | Sylveine, Kisaki Matsumoto, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Candy Qu | Ripples Of Distraction, Candy Qu, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Echo Xu | No One Enters, Echo Xu, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Reem Al-Ani | Down Below, Up Above, And Beyond, Reem Al-Ani, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Elise Williams | Deliver Me, Again (But Cleaner) (Please), Elise Mollie Williams, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Alexandra Reintjes | God Watches With Her Back Turned, Alexandra Reintjes, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Dylan Gabriel | Alez, Belle Bagay, Dylan Gabriel, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Elsie Zhao | Remnants, Elsie Zhao, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Henry Deng | Fleeting, Henry Deng, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Rokyi Li | Lost In Transformation, Rokyi Li, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Cris Gao | To Kill The Dead Boy In The Pool, Cris Gao, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Statements

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Video Through | Finals Screening Poster, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Student Work

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Without Us There Is No Britain: Black British Photography And Film Networks, 1950-1989, Maria T. Quinata

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation tracks three moments from 1950 to 1989, when images were put to work by Black photographers and filmmakers to stake individual and communal claims to Britain and Britishness: first, through the emergence of photographic portraiture taken in domestic living spaces during the 1950s to 1970s; second, through the Black Panther Movement and their use of photography in the late 1960s to mid 1970s, and last, with the efflorescence of Black film and video collectives in the 1980s. At each of these moments, I attend to the simultaneous production, negotiation, and co-mingling of new social identities that were diasporic, …

Video Through | Week 3: Reading And Voicing Exercises, Maxime Cavajani, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Outline of Week 3, Day 1 presenting method of reading, voicing, and movement exercises.