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.