All Outputs (16)

Postwar Narratives and the Avant-garde Documentary: Tokyo 1958 and Furyō Shōnen (2019)
Book Chapter
Centeno, M. (2019). Postwar Narratives and the Avant-garde Documentary: Tokyo 1958 and Furyō Shōnen. In D. Martinez, B. Guarné, & A. Lozano-Méndez (Eds.), Persistently Postwar: Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan (pp. 41-62). Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pns6b.8

Susumu Hani had a leading role in adapting the post-war avant-garde documentary movement in cinematographic terms. His films Tokyo 1958 (Hani et al., 1958) and Furyō Shōnen (Hani, Bad Boys, 1960) materialised the demands for a new kind of documentar... Read More about Postwar Narratives and the Avant-garde Documentary: Tokyo 1958 and Furyō Shōnen.

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 (pp. 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.

Rare birds : a global ethnography of Ethiopian circus performers (2017)
Thesis
Kendall, J. (2017). Rare birds : a global ethnography of Ethiopian circus performers [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024393

Afterword: Reassembling after 3/11 (2015)
Book Chapter
Kirsch, G., Manzenreiter, W., Horne, J., White, M., Katsuno, H., & Martinez, D. (2015). Afterword: Reassembling after 3/11. In G. Kirsch, D. Martinez, & M. White (Eds.), Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture (pp. 231-238). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0767-2/22

Relocating Japan? Japan, China and the West in Japanese Television Dramas (2015)
Book Chapter
Kirsch, G. (2015). Relocating Japan? Japan, China and the West in Japanese Television Dramas. In G. Kirsch, D. Martinez, & M. White (Eds.), Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture (pp. 113-133). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0767-2/16

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 (pp. 1-19). Peter Lang.

Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture (2015)
Book
G. Kirsch, D. Martinez, & M. White. (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.

Ballet as liberation : dreams, desire and resistance among urban Japanese women (2015)
Thesis
Ono, S. (2015). Ballet as liberation : dreams, desire and resistance among urban Japanese women [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00022783

(Re)locating identities in the ancestral homeland: the complexities of belonging among the migrants from Peru in Okinawa (2011)
Thesis
Kawabata, M. (2011). (Re)locating identities in the ancestral homeland: the complexities of belonging among the migrants from Peru in Okinawa [PhD thesis, SOAS, University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00018464

Cultural Property and Heritage in Japan (2011)
Thesis
Russell, J. E. (2011). Cultural Property and Heritage in Japan [PhD thesis, SOAS, University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00014043

Documenting the Beijing Olympics (2010)
Book
D. Martinez, & K. Latham. (Eds.). (2010). Documenting the Beijing Olympics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315868127

This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the ‘key’ stories and how were they c... Read More about Documenting the Beijing Olympics.

Football: from England to the World (2008)
Book
D. Martinez, & P. B. Mukharji. (Eds.). (2008). Football: from England to the World. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315868820

This book is a fascinating journey through a series of scholarly articles. The journey begins by tracing one of the most significant stories in the popularization of Association Football. In the next leg of the journey it charts the diverse and chang... Read More about Football: from England to the World.

Japanese Culture and Society (2007)
Book
D. Martinez. (Ed.). (2007). Japanese Culture and Society. Routledge.

Pilgrimage and spiritual quests in Japan (2007)
Book
M. Rodriquez, P. Ackermann, & D. Martinez. (Eds.). (2007). Pilgrimage and spiritual quests in Japan. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203318508

This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical an... Read More about Pilgrimage and spiritual quests in Japan.

Akira: Postmodernism and Resistance (1998)
Book Chapter
Standish, I. (1998). Akira: Postmodernism and Resistance. In D. Martinez (Ed.), The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender Shifting Boundaries and Global Culture (pp. 56-74). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470158.004

The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture (1998)
Book
D. Martinez. (Ed.). (1998). The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470158

Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what J... Read More about The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture.