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..

Demystifying the Notion of Japaneseness: the Documentary 'Ainu. Pathways to memory (2014)
Journal Article
Centeno, M. (2014). Demystifying the Notion of Japaneseness: the Documentary 'Ainu. Pathways to memory. Eikyô, 4-7

Ainu. Pathways to Memory (2014)
Digital Artefact
Centeno, M. (2014). Ainu. Pathways to Memory. [DVD]

Ainu. Paths to Memory is a discovery documentary of the Ainu people in Japan. They have been historically considered savages by the Japanese and Russian governments. They were dispossessed from their lands and suffered unfair laws impeding them to ke... Read More about Ainu. Pathways to Memory.

Ainu 2009-2013 (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Centeno, M., & Liverani, L. Ainu 2009-2013. [Photography Exhibition]. 14 October 2013 - 24 October 2013. (Unpublished)

The Ainu, the native people of Japan, were officially recognized as an ethnicity in 2008, after more than a century of discrimination and oppression which almost completely effaced their language, society and culture. Today several individuals and gr... Read More about Ainu 2009-2013.