Daisuke Miyao
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Phone: (541) 346-4010
Email: dmiyao@uoregon.edu
Daisuke Miyao’s teaching and research interests cover film studies, Japanese studies, Asian-American studies, and cultural studies. Professor Miyao is the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (Duke University Press, 2007), which is the winner of 2007 Book Award in History (the Association of Asian American Studies) and 2007 John Hope Franklin Book Award (Duke University). He is the editor of Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and co-editor of Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano (with William O. Gardner, Kaya Press, 2004). His other publications include: “Bright Lights, Big City: Lighting, Technological Modernity, and Ozu Yasujiro’s Sono yo no tsuma (That Night’s Wife, 1930)” in positions: east asia cultures critique (forthcoming); “Containment of Horror: Tsuru Aoki's Transnational Stardom” in Screening Trans-Asia: Genre, Stardom, and Intellectual Imaginaries (University of Hong-Kong Press, forthcoming); “Sessue Hayakawa: The Racialized Body vs. Photogenie” in Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming); “Crossways: Of Classical Hollywood, German Expressionism, and Japanese Modernism” in Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); “From Doppelganger to Monster: Kitano Takeshi’s Takeshis’” in Canadian Journal of Film Studies (2009); “Thieves of Baghdad: Transnational Networks of Cinema and Anime in the 1920s" in Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire (2007); “Dark Visions of Japanese Film Noir: Suzuki Seijin’s Branded to Kill (1967)” in Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts, (Routledge, 2007); “Telephilia vs. Cinephilia= Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano?” in Framework: The Journal of Film and Media (2004); “Before Anime: Animation and the Pure Film Movement in Prewar Japan” in Japan Forum (2002). Professor Miyao earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Tokyo, and his masters and Ph.D. from New York University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University in 2004-2005 and 2003-2004, respectively.
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