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"Empire, Japan, and Masochistic Desire"

Christine Marran

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Event Date: Thursday, April 11, 2002
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Aaron Levy

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Christine Marran is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Forthcoming from the journal Film History is "Tracking the Transcendental: Kore'eda Hirokazu's Maboroshi." Her recent contribution "Body Circuitries in Nineteenth Century Japanese Books of Nature" to a volume on Japanese women's texts (ed. Janice Brown), is part of a larger project on technology and gender. She has written extensively on female deviancy and cinematic sexuality in contemporary Japanese film and literature and is currently completing a book manuscript "The Allure of the Poison Woman in Japanese Modernity."

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