表題番号：2020C-451
日付：2021/04/09
研究課題Cosmopolitan Dream, Colonial Hegemony: The Manchurian Motion Picture Corporation and the Production of My Nightingale (1943)
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 国際学術院 大学院アジア太平洋研究科 | 教授 | 中嶋 聖雄 |
- 研究成果概要
- This research has contributed to the emerging sociological studies on cosmopolitanism by presenting a historical and institutional analysis of the production of an arguably “cosmopolitan” film, My Nightingale (Watashi no uguisu, dir. Shimazu Yasujiro, 1943), produced at the height of Japan’s ethnic-nationalist period during WWII. I ask the following three research questions: 1) Which aspects, if any, of the film text entail cosmopolitanism?; 2) How and why did the possibly cosmopolitan aspects of the film text emerge under the existence of ethnic-nationalist policies, institutions, attitudes, and behavior in the Japanese colonial empire?; 3) What implications does this case study have on the ongoing debate on cosmopolitanism? By providing answers to these questions, I argue that ahistorical, normative call for cosmopolitanism hinders our grasp of a possibility that some claims to cosmopolitanism may entail the rationality of narrow ethnocentric nationalism. In other words, I contend that the case study of the Manchurian Motion Picture Corporation and the production of My Nightingale suggests the possible co-existence of cosmopolitanism and hegemony. A part of the research results was published in Seio Nakajima. 2021. “Studies of Chinese Cinema in Japan.” Journal of Chinese Film Studies Vol. 1, Issue 1.