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"Empire, Japan, and Masochistic Desire" Featuring Christine Marran KWH, University of Pennsylvania | Thursday, April 11, 2002; 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Free at Door (Reservation not required) Organized by Aaron Levy Theorizing Series

Project Website (with 80 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11059/ 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."