Junko Yamazaki’s research is broadly centered on film, media aesthetics and practices of technological and cultural mediation, especially in regard to the questions of the history and politics of sensory life. She has explored these questions by primarily examining 1950s and 1960s Japanese film aesthetics. She is particularly interested in the significance of film spectatorship in postwar Japan, which emerged as a transformative force for social change, propelled by the thorny question of reckoning with the legacies of the past in the present. Her research interests also inform her teaching and pedagogy which are attuned to the intersections between media objects and the students’ own experiences. She has also studied and written on postwar film music and literary debates in the early cold war context.
See Professor Yamazaki’s full biography on the Department of East Asian Studies website.
