Aaron Gerow

Assoc. Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures
aaron.gerow@yale.edu

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Assoc. Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Aaron Gerow arrived at Yale in January 2004 and teaches undergraduate courses in Japanese cinema, introduction to film, close analysis of film, and film genre, as well as graduate seminars on Japanese film and cultural theory. He received a MFA in film studies from Columbia University in 1987, a MA in Asian Civilizations from the University of Iowa in 1992, and a PhD in Communication Studies from Iowa in 1996. He spent nearly 12 years in Japan working for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and teaching at Yokohama National University and Meiji Gakuin University. He has published numerous articles in English, Japanese and other languages on such topics as Japanese early cinema, film theory, contemporary directors, film genre, censorship, Japanese manga, and cinematic representations of minorities. His book on Kitano Takeshi was published by the BFI in 2007, A Page of Madness came out from the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan in 2008, and Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925, was published in 2010 (the Japanese version will be coming out from the University of Tokyo Press). He also co-authored the Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies with Abe Mark Nornes (Center for Japanese Studies, 2009).