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Brett Davies
Brett Davies is an associate professor in the School of Global Japanese Studies at Meiji University in Tokyo. He has published extensively both in linguistics and cinema studies, and his master’s dissertation demonstrated how a corpus of film screenplays could be used to improve conversational language use among Japanese students of English. He gained his Ph.D. in film studies from De Montfort University (United Kingdom), with his thesis analysing the career of writer-director Lawrence Kasdan. His research interests include the use of homage and pastiche in modern Hollywood cinema, and thematic relationships between Japanese and American films.
Contact: School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University, 4-21-1 Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-8525, Japan.