Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies
Kyoto University | Graduate School of Letters
This study focus investigates the production, proliferation, and reception of images and objects as well as their collection, display, and reconfiguration with a view to the human agency involved.
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK50001
With the example practice-as-network often abridged as role-playing games, this course introduces students to a (trans-) cultural studies approach of practices, actors and processes.
Continue reading “Actors, Processes, and Networks: Studying (Sub-) Cultural Practices”
This course is designed for the study foci “Knowledge, Belief and Religion” (KBR) and “Visual, Media and Material Cultures” (VMC) and consists of the following three parts:
In this graduate seminar, we will learn about various women documentaries and writings from the 1990s to present.
Continue reading “Cinema and Media Studies Seminar: Women and Documentary in East Asia and Documentary Writing”
Digital games are widely recognized as a global culture. However, the term global remains vague in most discussions, to say the least.
Continue reading “Digital games in a transcultural perspective”
Teacher: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK46002
In this lecture, we will study multiple traditions of documentary film.
Continue reading “Documentary Traditions”
Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR, VMC
Term: Fall
Teacher: YOSHII Hideo, SHIMOGAKI Hitoshi, Erika Angela FORTE
Course Code: JK41002
Teacher: Ida DURETTO
Course Code: JK39002
Italian neorealism (1945-1952) was a crucial movement in film history, marking an aware move away from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking and focusing on realistic characters and stories.
Continue reading “Global Neorealism”
Course Type: Lecture & Seminar (Tutorium)
Study Focus: Foundations, KBR, SEG, VMC
Term: Spring
Teachers: ASATO Wako, Björn-Ole KAMM, Somdev VASUDEVA, Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK01001 (JK02001)
Foundational lecture series that introduces students to diverse disciplinary approaches enabling them to frame their own studies of transcultural phenomena and perspectives.
Continue reading “Introduction to Transcultural Studies”
Teacher: Orna RAVIV
Course Code: JK46001
This course examines Israeli cinema and Israeli-Palestinian through philosophical and aesthetical lenses, exploring the intersection of film and philosophical concepts.
Continue reading “Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian Cinema: Frames of Identity and Alterity”
In this intensive course, I will explain how and why I take my particular approach to documentary filmmaking, covering all phases of filmmaking from filming to editing to marketing.
Continue reading “Learning the Power of Observation: How and Why I Make “Observational” Documentaries”