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Aaron Gerow
Aaron Gerow is Professor of East Asian cinema and culture at Yale University. He has published extensively on Japanese film history, television, cinema in the Japanese empire, film theory, censorship, and spectatorship, among other topics. His books include Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925 (2010); Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies (co-authored with Markus Nornes, 2009 [Japanese edition 2016]); A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan (2008); and Kitano Takeshi (2007). His co-edited anthology Rediscovering Classical Japanese Film Theory—An Anthology (in Japanese) appeared in 2018. He is currently preparing a monograph on the history of Japanese film theory. He also runs his own Japanese film website Tangemania (www.aarongerow.com).
