Sam Warnock
Thesis title: The Anti-Cinema of Yoshida Kijū and Okada Mariko: Form, Genre, and Politics
PhD in Film Studies
Year of study: 3
- Film Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: sam.warnock@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
Sam is a third year PhD student in Film Studies. His research project focusses on the films of Japanese filmmaker Yoshida Kijū and actress Okada Mariko with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and melodrama.
Qualifications
BA in Global Cinema | First | University of Stirling (2015-2019)
MRes in Humanities (Film Studies) | Distinction | University of Stirling (2019-2020)
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor in Film Studies: Introduction to European Cinema (2023-)
Research summary
Sam's research project focusses on the films of Yoshida Kijū and will also explore the filmmaker's writings on the concept of anti-cinema. The project will develop Yoshida's writing into a methodological framework suitable for looking at his films, with a particular emphasis on subjectivity, gender, and politics.
Current research interests
Post-War Japanese Cinema, Japanese New Wave, Melodrama, Gender and Sexuality, Politics and Aesthetics, Avant-Garde CinemaPast research interests
Slow Cinema, European Cinema, BoredomCurrent project grants
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Studentship - 2022-24
Great Britain Sasakawa Research Grant - 'The Films of Yoshida Kijū and Okada Mariko: Form, Genre, and Politics' (2024-25)
Papers delivered
Challenging the System: The Films of Yoshida Kijū and Okada Mariko - Kinema Club Symposium, University of Sheffield, June 2024
The Transgressive Heroines of Okada Mariko - Transgressive Women in East Asian Screen Cultures Symposium, Cardiff University, May 2024
Subverting the Post-War Melodrama: Yoshida Kijū's Akitsu Springs - II World Cinema International Conference: Cinema of Japan, University Complutense of Madrid, September 2023
Returning the Gaze: Subjectivity and Autonomy in Yoshida Kijū's Woman of the Lake - European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), August 2023
Dissolving History: Imagined Spaces in Yoshida Kijū's Political Trilogy - Borders, Boundaries, Fringes Symposium (SCRIF), University of Sheffield, June 2023