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.

K-Pop as a Means to an End among Thai Youth: Korean Wave as Costume, Food, and Image (2018)
Journal Article
Howard, K., & Lekakul, G. (2018). K-Pop as a Means to an End among Thai Youth: Korean Wave as Costume, Food, and Image. Culture and empathy, 1(1-4), 18-33. https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2018/1.1234.0003

Assessments of the impact of K-pop beyond Korea, and of other aspects within the broader Korean Wave, often focus on groups of fans. The research reported here began from an intention to move beyond fandom, encouraged by a challenge to demonstrate th... Read More about K-Pop as a Means to an End among Thai Youth: Korean Wave as Costume, Food, and Image.

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..