平特五不中

Yuriko Furuhata - Department Chair

Academic title(s): 

Professor

William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History
Associate Member of the Department of Art History & Communication Studies

Yuriko Furuhata - Department Chair
Contact Information
Address: 

680听Sherbrooke St West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2M7

Email address: 
yuriko.furuhata [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
East Asian Studies
Office: 
266
Biography: 

Yuriko Furuhata听is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History in the Department of East Asian Studies at 平特五不中. 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),Animating Film Theory听(2014), among others.

Area(s): 
Japan
Areas of expertise: 

Cinema and Media History

Research areas: 
Japanese Film and Media
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

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

Areas of interest: 

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.

Group: 
Professor
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