Cinetek: Page of Madness. Flicks Books (forthcoming).

Kitano Takeshi. BFI (forthcoming).

"Nihon eiga" no tanjo: Taisho-ki ni okeru eizo no kindai. Translated by Hase Masato. University of Tokyo Press (forthcoming).

Books/Catalogs (as editor and/or co-author):

In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoru. Yokohama, Ann Arbor: Kinema Club, 2001. Co-editor with Abe Mark Nornes, also contributor and translator.

Articles (book chapters and catalog articles):

"Sangyo to iu gensetsu" (Industry as Discourse). Katsudo shashin keizairon/Kokusan shorei to eiga jigyo (Economics of the Moving Pictures/The Film Industry and the Promotion of Domestic Production). Nihon eigaron gensetsu taikei, dai 2-ki: Eiga no modanizumu-ki, vol. 16. Ed. Makino Mamoru. Tokyo: Yumani Shobo, 2004.

"Waku o hamidashite iru tasha" (The Other Exceeding the Frame). Okinawa ni tachisukumu: Daigaku o koete shinkasuru chi (Transfixed on Okinawa: Deepening Knowledge in Transcendence of the University). Eds. Iwabuchi Koichi, Tadao Osamu and Tanaka Yasuhiro. Tokyo: Serika Shobo, 2004. Pp. 171-179.

"Eigaho to iu eigaron" (The Film Law as Film Theory). Eigaho kaisetsu/Dai 74-kai Teikoku Gikai eiga hoan giji gaiyo (Explanation of the Film Law/Record of the Debates on the Film Law in the 74th Imperial Japanese Diet). Nihon eigaron gensetsu taikei, dai 1-ki: Senjika no eigatoseiki, vol. 8. Ed. Makino Mamoru. Tokyo: Yumani Shobo, 2003.

"From the National Gaze to Multiple Gazes: Representations of Okinawa in Recent Japanese Cinema." Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power. Eds. Laura Hein and Mark Selden. Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

"Ripetizione e rottura nei film di Kawase Naomi" (Repetition and Rupture in the Films of Kawase Naomi), Kawase Naomi: i film i cinema. Ed. Maria Roberto Novielli. Torino: Effata Editrice, 2002. Pp. 30-37.

"Aoyama Shinji" Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers. Ed. Yvonne Tasker. London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. 16-25

"The Industrial Ichikawa: Ichikawa Kon after 1976." Kon Ichikawa. Ed. James Quandt. Ontario: Cinematheque Ontario, 2001. Pp. 385-397.

"Kankyaku no naka no benshi: Musei eiga ni okeru shutaisei to kazoku kokka" (The Benshi Inside the Viewer: Subjectivity and the Family State in the Silent Era). In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoru. Eds. Abe Markus Nornes and Aaron Gerow. Yokohama, Ann Arbor: Kinema Club, 2001. Pp. 130-138.

"The Word Before the Image: Criticism, the Screenplay, and the Regulation of Meaning in Prewar Japanese Film Culture." Word and Image in Japanese Cinema. Eds. Carole Cavanaugh and Dennis Washburn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 3-35.

"Consuming Asia, Consuming Japan: The New Neonationalist Revisionism in Japan." Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States. Eds. Mark Selden and Laura Hein. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Pp. 74-95.

"Miyamoto Musashi to senjichu no kankyaku" (Miyamoto Musashi and Wartime Spectators). Eiga kantoku Mizoguchi Kenji (Film Director Mizoguchi Kenji). Ed. Yomota Inuhiko. Tokyo: Shinyosha, 1999. Pp. 226-250.

Articles (periodicals):

"Nichijo toshite no Hariuddo to sekai kankyaku no shihai" (Vernacular Hollywood and It's Dominance of World Audiences). Gendai shiso rinji sokan (Modern Thought) 31.1 (June 2003): 124-131.

"Tatakau kankyaku: Dai To-a Kyoeiken no Nihon eiga to juyo no mondai" (Fighting for Viewers: Wartime Japanese Film and the Asian Audience). Gendai shiso (Modern Thought) 30.9 (July 2002): 139-149.

"The Empty Return: Circularity and Repetition in Recent Japanese Horror Films." Minikomi: Informationen des Akademischen Arbeitkreis Japan N. 64 (2002): 19-24. 

"Recognizing 'Others' in a New Japanese Cinema." Japan Foundation Newsletter 39.2 (January 2002): 1-6. Also available online.

"One Print in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Culture and Industry in 1910s Japan." Screening the Past 11 (2000).

"Gonda Yasunosuke to kankyaku no eiga bunmei" (Gonda Yasunosuke and the Film Civilization of Spectators). Media-shi kenkyu (Research in Media History) 10 (2000): 1-15

"Oshima to iu sakka, kankyaku to iu waisetsu: Ai no koriida saiban to poruno no seiji" (Oshima the Author and the Obscene Audience: The In the Realm of the Senses Trial and the Politics of Pornography).Yuriika (Eureka) 32.1 (January 2000): 188-197.

"A Scene at the Threshold: Liminality in the Films of Kitano Takeshi," Asian Cinema 10.2 (Spring/Summer 1999): 107-115.

"Zuzo toshite no Sensoron" (On War as a Visual Text). Sekai (The World) 656 (December 1998): 118-123.

"Eiga no hoka no kanosei: Kurutta ichipeiji no juyo to eizo no kodo-ka" (The Other Possibilities of Cinema: The Reception of A Page of Madness and the Codification of the Image). Gengo Bunka (Meiji Gakuin Daigaku Gengo Bunka Kenkyujo) (Linguistic Culture) 15 (1998): 66-80.

"'Nihonjin" Kitano Takeshi: Hana-Bi to nashonaru shinema no keisei" (The Japanese Kitano Takeshi: Hana-Bi and the Formation of a National Cinema). Yuriika rinji zokan (Eureka Special Issue) 30.3 (February 1998): 42-51.

"Jigoma to eiga no 'hakken' - Nihon eiga gensetsushi josetsu" (Zigomar and the "Discovery" of Cinema: An Introduction to a Discursive History of Japanese Film). Eizogaku (Image Studies) 58 (1997): 34-50.

"The Self Seen as Other: Akutagawa and Film." Literature/Film Quarterly 23.3 (1995): 197-203.

"The Benshi's New Face: Defining Cinema in Taisho Japan." Iconics 3 (1994): 69-86.

"'Seijun no eiga, mo ichido mite shinitai': Suzuki Seijun mondai to posuto modan kankyakusei" ("I Want to See Seijun's Films Once More and Die": The Suzuki Seijun Incident and Postmodern Spectatorship). Trans. Morimoto Masashi. Image Forum 169 (Feb. 1994): 75-83.

"Celluloid Masks: The Cinematic Image and the Image of Japan." Iris 16 (Spring 1993): 23-36.

Interviews (as interviewer):

"Documentarists of Japan, No. 14: Kawase Naomi." Interviewed by Aaron Gerow. Documentary Box 16 (2000): 2-16. In English and Japanese. Also online.

"Documentarists of Japan, No. 13: Tsuchiya Yutaka." Interviewed by Aaron Gerow. Documentary Box 15 (2000): 1-8. In English and Japanese. Also online.

"Documentarists of Japan, No. 12: Koreeda Hirokazu." Interviewed by Tanaka Junko and Aaron Gerow. Documentary Box 13 (1999): 1-10. In English and Japanese. Also online.

"Documentarists of Japan, No. 9: Matsumoto Toshio." Interviewed by A.A. Gerow. Documentary Box 9 (1996): 6-13. In English and Japanese. Also online.

"Documentarists of Japan, No. 7: Tsuchimoto Noriaki." Interviewed by Yasui Yoshio and A.A. Gerow. Documentary Box 8 (1995): 6-14. In English and Japanese. Also online.

"Documentarists of Japan, No. 5: Prokino."  Interviewed by Makino Mamoru and A.A. Gerow. Documentary Box 5 (1994): 6-13. In English and Japanese. Also online.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Documentary Box (1999-present)

Eizogaku (2000-2002)

Screening the Past (1997-present)

Iconics (1996-2002, chair 1998-2002)

Journal of Japanese Studies (Advisory Board, 2004-present)

ON THE INTERNET

Kinema Club. WWW site for the scholarly study of Japanese cinema and television.

KineJapan.500-member newsgroup dedicated to Japanese moving image scholarship.

A featured scholar at Asian Film Connections, an internet site on Asian cinema.

SERVICE TO THE FIELD

Central Member (jonin riji), Board of Directors, Nihon Eizo Gakkai/JASIAS (2000-2004)

Member, General Affairs Committee, Nihon Eizo Gakkai/JASIAS (2002-2004)

Regional Coordinator for Japan, Asian Cinema Studies Society (1993-)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2003		Japan Foundation Grant for Participation in International Conferences (Dispatch)
1992-1993		Japan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellow
1992		Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Grant for Area Studies
1988, 1989		Stanley Summer Language Scholarships
1987-1991		Iowa University Fellow
1984		Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
1982-1983		John Jay Scholar, Columbia University