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Yuriko Furuhata - Department Chair
Professor
William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History
Associate Member of the Department of Art History & Communication Studies
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Yuriko Furuhata听is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History in the Department of East Asian Studies at 成人VR视频. Her first book,听Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics听(Duke University Press, 2013), won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.听Her second book,听Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control听(Duke University Press, 2022) explores the geopolitical conditions underpinning environmental art,听weather control, digital computing, and cybernetic architecture in Japan and the United States.听Climatic Media听won the 2022 Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) CHOICE Award in the category of interdisciplinary monograph. She is currently completing听a book, titled听Visual Grammars of Deep Time: Archipelagic Archives of the Anthropocene听(under contract, Duke University Press), which examines scientific atlases, photographs, and films of fossils, clouds, snow crystals, and corals in relation to the settler colonial histories of geosciences in Japan, the Pacific, and North America. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of journals, including听Grey Room, Representations, Public Culture, Media+Environment,听and听Screen,听and edited collections such as听Screen Genealogies听(2019),听Media Theory in Japan听(2017),听Animating Film Theory听(2014), among others.
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Cinema and Media History
She is the author of Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Duke University Press, 2013), which won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.听
Research Interests:听Japanese Film and Media Studies, Environmental Media Studies, Transpacific Studies, Avant-Garde Arts听and Visual Culture, Architecture, History of听Science and Technology and Continental Philosophy.