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.
Im Kwontaek, Park Chanwook, Hong Sangsoo, Kim Kiduk, Lee Changdong, and Bong Junho. These are most outstanding and internationally acclaimed directors of South Korea at the dawn of 21st century.
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Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK33001
The focus of this practice-oriented and interactive seminar lies on theoretical concepts and analytical techniques useful to engage transculturality in the cross-disciplinary research field of game studies.
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Teacher: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK36001
The 2024 Transcultural Cinema Forum will focus on queer cinema and examine the boundaries that create many of the dichotomies depicted in cinema, such as heterosexual/homosexual, gay/lesbian, male/female, normal/abnormal, common sense/uncommon sense, Japan/other regions.
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In this seminar, students will be introduced to major debates in queer film theory and criticism while exploring critical concepts in fields such as feminist and queer aesthetics and politics, realism, autobiography, cinematic modernism, and New Queer Cinema.
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Teacher: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK39003
The theme of the Transcultural Cinema Forum in the second semester of 2024 is “New Film History from Women‘s Documentaries. ” The objective of this course is to examine Japanese documentary film history from the perspective of women through study of films of women such as Oda Kaori, Komori Haruka, and Toda Hikaru, who have worked as directors without learning filmmaking from “men.”
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This course will introduce graduate students to different approaches to the craft of historical writing in English.
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Teacher: TANIGUCHI Fumikazu, KITA Chigusa, MATSUNAGA Shinji
Course Code: JK11007
音楽はメディアとともにそのあり方を変えてきた。そのことに目を向けるなら、20世紀はアナログレコードやCDといった音楽パッケージが多くの音楽文化を生み出した時代だったと言える。
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私たちを取り巻くメディアは、様々な形でジェンダーやセクシュアリティと深く関わっている。メディアは社会で共有されている価値観を映し出すだけでなく、その再生産と創造を行っているからだ。
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近年大きく発展してきたデジタルゲームは、文化産業、軍事産業、コンピュータによる生の管理、そしてプラットフォーム資本主義と深く結びついている。本講義では、このようなゲームを批判的に捉えてきたゲームスタディーズの理論的展開を軸に、現代ゲーム文化を考察・検討する。
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Teacher: TANIGUCHI Fumikazu
Course Code: JK39004
多くの人が身近に慣れ親しんでいるという意味で、音楽はポピュラーな文化の一つである。
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