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Abé Mark Nornes, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1996 Abe' Mark Nornes teaches Asian cinema, specializing in the film and video of Japan. Before coming to the University of Michigan he was a coordinator for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, where he programmed large events on Pacific War filmmaking, on film and video by indigenous people, and a major retrospective for the centenary of documentary in 1995. This interest in the documentary form has led to the preparation of a manuscript on nonfiction film in Japan. Covering the period from the beginning of cinema to 1946, this book will introduce how artists and critics conceptualized documentary during these crucial years. He is also exploring the possibilities of digital technology for film scholarship, writing hypertextual criticism and managing a website dedicated to the study of the Japanese moving image. When he's not sitting at a desk, he's moving: hiking, mountain biking, climbing, snow shoeing, and skiing. Most recently, he has freed his heels and started telemarking. Publications: Nornes is co-editor and contributor for Japan/America Film Wars: WWII Propaganda and its Cultural Contexts. He has published on a number of topics - especially on wartime documentary - in anthologies and journals. "The Body at the Center: The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki," appeared in Hibakusha Cinema (KPI, 1996). "Tainting National Space - The Enola Gay and What is Missing," was in Hiroshima 50 ans: Japon-Amerique, memoires au nucleaire (Paris: Editions Autrement, 1995). Forthcoming articles include "Poru Ruta and the Politics and Practice of Translation" in Cinema Journal, and "Toward an Abusive Subtitling: Illuminating Cinema's Apparatus of Translation" in Film Quarterly. Online, see "Narrating National Sadness: Cinematic Mapping and Hypertextual Dispersion," at CinemaSpace (co-written with Yeh Yueh-yu). Classes Taught: Film Theory, Asian Cinema, The History of Japanese Cinema, Graduate Seminar in Japanese Film Theory, Dialogue of Violence: Filmmaking of WWII's Pacific Theater, International Film History, Documentary, Japanese Popular Culture. back |
