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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 (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.

The Limits of Fiction: Politics and Absent Scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960). A Film Re-reading through its Script (2018)
Journal Article
Centeno, M. (2018). The Limits of Fiction: Politics and Absent Scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960). A Film Re-reading through its Script. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 10, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17564905.2018.1437659

This text proposes an updated analysis of Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (1960) through the director’s theoretical contribution and the re-reading of his script. This film, made within the limits of reality and fiction, was instrumental in the cinematic lang... Read More about The Limits of Fiction: Politics and Absent Scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960). A Film Re-reading through its Script.

Method Directors. Susumu Hani and Yasujirō Ozu: a Comparative Approach across Paradigms (2018)
Book Chapter
Centeno, M. (2018). Method Directors. Susumu Hani and Yasujirō Ozu: a Comparative Approach across Paradigms. In A. Becker (Ed.), Yasujirô Ozu and the Aesthetics of his Time (125-152). Büchner-Verlag

This text seeks to assess Yasujiro Ozu´s filmmaking method in relation to that of Susumu Hani, which was theorised and put into practice through documentary films during the fifties. These filmmakers belonged to different generations and while Ozu, s... Read More about Method Directors. Susumu Hani and Yasujirō Ozu: a Comparative Approach across Paradigms.

The Fight for the Self-Representation: Ainu Imaginary, Ethnicity and Assimilation (2017)
Journal Article
Centeno, M. (in press). The Fight for the Self-Representation: Ainu Imaginary, Ethnicity and Assimilation. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 69-89. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.13.04

Film representation of the Ainu people is as long as cinema but it has not remained stable over time. From the origins of cinema, Ainu people were an object of interest for Japanese and foreign explorers who portrayed them as an “other” savage and is... Read More about The Fight for the Self-Representation: Ainu Imaginary, Ethnicity and Assimilation.

Transcultural Corporeity in Taiyozoku Youth Cinema. Some Notes on the Contradictions of Japaneseness in the Economic Miracle. (2016)
Book Chapter
Centeno, M. (2016). Transcultural Corporeity in Taiyozoku Youth Cinema. Some Notes on the Contradictions of Japaneseness in the Economic Miracle. In A. Becker, & K. Adachi-Rabe (Eds.), Presentation of Bodies in Japanese Films / Körperinszenierungen im japanischen Film (143-160). Büchner-Verlag

Japanese visual culture offers countless examples of mutable corporeity and metamorphosis processes, which often imply internal as well as external changes in characters, with which the Japanese notion of “body” (shintai) certainly acquires distinct... Read More about Transcultural Corporeity in Taiyozoku Youth Cinema. Some Notes on the Contradictions of Japaneseness in the Economic Miracle..

On the Matter of Fiction: An Approach to the Marginalization of African Film Studies in the Global Academy (2016)
Journal Article
Dovey, L. (2016). On the Matter of Fiction: An Approach to the Marginalization of African Film Studies in the Global Academy. Black camera, 7(2), 159-173. https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.7.2.159

This article adopts a polemical tone to argue that factual rather than fictional media modes are gradually being privileged globally to the extent that we find ourselves—as academics, but also as citizens—in the grips of a dangerous “regime of truth”... Read More about On the Matter of Fiction: An Approach to the Marginalization of African Film Studies in the Global Academy.

'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation (2015)
Book Chapter
Dovey, L. (2015). 'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation. In D. Hassler-Forest, & P. Nicklas (Eds.), The Politics of Adaptation: Media Convergence and Ideology (99-113). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443854_8

In early May 2014, the Swedish artist Markus Öhrn premiered the first part of his project ‘Bergman in Uganda’ at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Belgium. The premiere involved a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s signature film Persona (1966), int... Read More about 'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation.

Susumu Hani (1950-1960): la aportación teórico-práctica al documental y al cine juvenil japonés. Una aproximación al caso de Hani como precursor de la Nueva Ola. (2015)
Thesis
Centeno, M. Susumu Hani (1950-1960): la aportación teórico-práctica al documental y al cine juvenil japonés. Una aproximación al caso de Hani como precursor de la Nueva Ola. (Thesis). Universitat de València

This thesis brings for the first time an anthology of the Japanese director Susumu Hani. It brings to light the documentary films for cinema and television, made in Iwanami Eiga studios between 1950 and 1960, most of them unknown in the West. The ana... Read More about Susumu Hani (1950-1960): la aportación teórico-práctica al documental y al cine juvenil japonés. Una aproximación al caso de Hani como precursor de la Nueva Ola..

The Revolutionary Triptych (2015)
Journal Article
Standish, I. (2015). The Revolutionary Triptych

This is an article in a booklet on Yoshida (Kiju) Yoshishige's three films Eros + Massacre, Heroic Purgatory, and Coup d'etat that accompanies the box set DVD release of these films.

The Shapes of Otherness: the Representation of the Ainu People in Brodsky’s Travelogues 1918-1919 (2015)
Journal Article
Centeno, M. (2015). The Shapes of Otherness: the Representation of the Ainu People in Brodsky’s Travelogues 1918-1919. Kokoro (Cáceres), 14-22

The origins of cinema coincided with the growing interest in Ainu culture in the West. It is not surprising that the Ainu people appeared in the first images filmed by the cinematograph in Japan. This essay focus the analysis on the Ainu sequences in... Read More about The Shapes of Otherness: the Representation of the Ainu People in Brodsky’s Travelogues 1918-1919.

Las grietas de la imagen. Una mirada a la trastienda de los primeros documentales etnográfico sobre el pueblo ainu (1897-1936) (2014)
Journal Article
Centeno, M. (2014). Las grietas de la imagen. Una mirada a la trastienda de los primeros documentales etnográfico sobre el pueblo ainu (1897-1936)

This work is a historical study of the representation of the Ainu people through ethnographic documentaries made in Japan before the Pacific War. The corpus has been divided into three sections: first, the Ainu in the first Lumière actualités filmed... Read More about Las grietas de la imagen. Una mirada a la trastienda de los primeros documentales etnográfico sobre el pueblo ainu (1897-1936).