Kyoko Omori, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese), gave an invited talk at the University of Rochester on April 9.
Hosted by the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester via Zoom, the event celebrated the recent publication of The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Omori’s contribution to the volume, “Inter-Mediating Global Modernity: Benshi Film Narrators, Multisensory Performance, and Fan Culture,” discusses her current project and highlights the power of digital technologies in opening new avenues for Japanese studies.
