Sam Warnock
Thesis title: The Anti-Cinema of Yoshida Kijū: 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 Yoshida's theory of anti-cinema.
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 & Aesthetics, Avant-Garde CinemaPast research interests
Slow Cinema, European Cinema, BoredomCurrent project grants
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Studentship
Papers delivered
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