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Behind the Voice that Brought Peace: The Emperor as Hero in The Emperor in August (Harada Masato, 2015) (2022)
Book Chapter
Kirsch, G. (2022). Behind the Voice that Brought Peace: The Emperor as Hero in The Emperor in August (Harada Masato, 2015). In D. Desser (Ed.), A Companion to Japanese Cinema (352-368). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118955352.ch16

To highlight if, and how, The Emperor in August differs from other war films, this chapter outlines some twenty-first century developments in this genre, aiming to work out how the collective memory of the war in Japan continues to be forged and how... Read More about Behind the Voice that Brought Peace: The Emperor as Hero in The Emperor in August (Harada Masato, 2015).

Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition (2022)
Book
Mithani, F., & Kirsch, G. (Eds.). (2022). Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition. Japan Documents

The Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition brings together new research and perspectives on popular media phenomena, as well as shining a spotlight on texts that are less well known or studied. Organized into five thematic secti... Read More about Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Kirsch, G., & Mithani, F. (2022). Introduction. In F. Mithani, & G. Kirsch (Eds.), Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition (xiii-xxvii). Japan Documents

Japan's Charm Offensive: NHK World-Japan and Soft Power (2021)
Book Chapter
Kirsch, G. (2021). Japan's Charm Offensive: NHK World-Japan and Soft Power. In T. Brook, & K. Ohashi (Eds.), 他者をめぐる人文学　グロバール世界における翻訳・媒介・伝達 : Adaptation, Mediation and Communication of Otherness in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Japan (152-166). Kobe University Press

Gendering the Japanese Empire: Ri Kōran as ‘Transnational’ Star? (2019)
Journal Article
Kirsch, G. (2019). Gendering the Japanese Empire: Ri Kōran as ‘Transnational’ Star?. Arts, 8(4), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8040153

This paper aims to assess how Ri Kōran came to represent the gender dichotomies of the Japanese Empire. Looking at two propaganda films, Suzhou Nights (1941) and Sayon’s Bell (1943), I will work out how the roles she played are indicative of the gend... Read More about Gendering the Japanese Empire: Ri Kōran as ‘Transnational’ Star?.

Whose Choice? Watching non-English language Films in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Kirsch, G. (2019). Whose Choice? Watching non-English language Films in the UK. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 38(5), 619-624. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2018-0118

In a market dominated by Hollywood, it is easy to overlook that the number of films (and televised productions) which are not in English is actually by far greater than those in English. However, although some non-English language film industries are... Read More about Whose Choice? Watching non-English language Films in the UK.

Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai and Its Remakes (2019)
Book Chapter
Kirsch, G. (2019). Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai and Its Remakes. In B. Guarné, A. Lozano-Méndez, & D. Martinez (Eds.), Persistently Postwar: Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan (85-102). Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pns6b.10

Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai (I Want to Be a Shellfish), the story of a soldier unfairly tried for war crimes, is one of Japan’s longest running media fran chises. First produced as a television drama by the private station KRT (later called TBS)¹ in 19... Read More about Recreating Memory? The Drama Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai and Its Remakes.

Us and Them: Negotiating National Identities in a Shifting Europe (2017)
Other
Kirsch, G., Cocuz, I., & Igrutinovic´, D. (2017). Us and Them: Negotiating National Identities in a Shifting Europe. Belgrade

This paper focuses on how national identities have recently been negotiated in different European countries (EU member states, one EU candidate state, and one EU opt-out member), mainly in relation to EU identity, refugees, religion, and LGBT rights.... Read More about Us and Them: Negotiating National Identities in a Shifting Europe.

Japan in the Global Context - (Some) Challenges in the 21st Century (2016)
Journal Article
Kirsch, G. Japan in the Global Context - (Some) Challenges in the 21st Century. Romanian economic business review, 10(4), 199-214

This paper will look at some challenges that Japan faces in the 21st century. Starting first with a historical perspective, I will look at the role that the nihonjinron played in the global positioning of Japan, before elucidating Japan’s position in... Read More about Japan in the Global Context - (Some) Challenges in the 21st Century.

Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture (2015)
Book
Kirsch, G., Martinez, D., & White, M. (Eds.). (2015). Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0767-2

Assembling Japan focuses on Japan’s modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation’s full engagement with the global system. This process forms a complex field of tensions, full of interesti... Read More about Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture.

Japan as an Assemblage (2015)
Book Chapter
Kirsch, G., & Martinez, D. (2015). Japan as an Assemblage. In G. Kirsch, D. Martinez, & M. White (Eds.), Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture (1-19). Peter Lang

Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen, A History, 1989-2005 (2015)
Book
Kirsch, G. (2015). Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen, A History, 1989-2005. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474219907

Japan and China look back on a history of friendship as well as friction, particularly in recent decades. As the People's Republic of China's economy began to grow in the 1990s, so did its political weight within Asia and its economical relevance for... Read More about Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen, A History, 1989-2005.