Edited by Daisuke Miyao, Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature, UC San Diego
  
Daisuke Miyao is Associate Professor of Japanese Film and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema, Eiga wa neko dearu: Hajimete no cinema sutadizu [Cinema Is a Cat: Introduction to Cinema Studies], and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom.
 
 

Contributors:
Eric Cazdyn is Professor of cultural and critical theory at the University of Toronto.
Hideaki Fujiki is Professor in cinema and Asian studies at Nagoya University, Japan.
Aaron Gerow is Professor in Japanese cinema at Yale University.
Shuhei Hosokawa is Professor at International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto).
Dong Hoon Kim is Assistant Professor of Korean Film and Literature at the University of Oregon.
Chika Kinoshita is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Hiroshi Kitamura is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary.
Sangjoon Lee is Assistant Professor in the department of Screen Arts and Cultures and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Diane Wei Lewis is a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Language and Culture, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo.
Kwai-Cheung Lo is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, and Director of Creative and Professional Writing Program at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Daisuke Miyao is Associate Professor of Japanese film and cinema studies at the University of Oregon.
Abe Mark Nornes is Professor of Asian Cinema at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Hidenori Okada is Curator of National Film Center (NFC), the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Michael Raine is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Western University, Canada.
Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University.
Ayako Saito is Professor of the Department of Art Studies at Meiji Gakuin University.
Miryam Sas is Professor of Film & Media and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ben Singer is Professor of Film in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano is Associate Professor of Film Studies in Carleton University (Canada).
Ichiro Yamamoto is Producer at Shochiku Co., Ltd. 
Alexander Zahlten is Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.