Faculty & Research
Paul Spicer
United Kingdom
Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication
Research Keywords
Film Studies,Film History,Cultural Studies,Popular Music Theory and History
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) in Entertainment Technology, University of Portsmouth, 2005
MPhil (PhD progression) in Research Methodologies, University of Portsmouth, 2007
PhD in Film and Cultural Studies, University of Portsmouth, 2012
MPhil (PhD progression) in Research Methodologies, University of Portsmouth, 2007
PhD in Film and Cultural Studies, University of Portsmouth, 2012
Message
“Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.” – Denzel Washington
Classes Taught on MJSP
General Education Seminar (Language and Culture through Film)
General Education Seminar (Popular Music and Society)
General Education Seminar (Advanced: Popular Music and Society)
General Education Seminar (Popular Music and Society)
General Education Seminar (Advanced: Popular Music and Society)
Selected Publications and Further Information
・Spicer, P (2019). Nationalism, Censorship and Subversion: An Exploration of meaning in Kenji Mizoguchi’s War Years Pictures (1939-1945). Thammasat Review 22(2) 135 – 149.
・Spicer, P (2019). Theatrical Transcendence: Mizoguchi, Noh Theatre and Film Style 16:9 Filmtidsskrift.
・Mizoguchi, Melodrama, and the Psychology of Nature: Exploring Relationships Between Worlds in Kenji Mizoguchi’s Musashino Fujin (1951). Quarterly Review of Film and Video 1 – 15.
・From Osaka to the Gion: Vernacular Modernism in Kenji Mizoguchi’s Osaka Elegy (1936) and Sisters of the Gion (1936). IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film 4(1) 83 – 92.
・Spicer, P. (2012). The Films of Kenji Mizoguchi: Authorship and Vernacular Style. The University of Portsmouth, U.K. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551458
・Spicer, P (2019). Theatrical Transcendence: Mizoguchi, Noh Theatre and Film Style 16:9 Filmtidsskrift.
・Mizoguchi, Melodrama, and the Psychology of Nature: Exploring Relationships Between Worlds in Kenji Mizoguchi’s Musashino Fujin (1951). Quarterly Review of Film and Video 1 – 15.
・From Osaka to the Gion: Vernacular Modernism in Kenji Mizoguchi’s Osaka Elegy (1936) and Sisters of the Gion (1936). IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film 4(1) 83 – 92.
・Spicer, P. (2012). The Films of Kenji Mizoguchi: Authorship and Vernacular Style. The University of Portsmouth, U.K. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551458
Modern Japanese Studies Program Faculty
Jonathan Bull
Lecturer
History: decolonisation, forced migration, settler colonialism, oral history. Memory studies: narrative, social memory formation, museums
Emma Cook
Professor
Japanese youth employment, gender, health and wellbeing, food and social life
Takayuki Ito
Professor
Modern Japanese language history, Japanese language education history
Tadashi Iwami
Lecturer
International Relations, International Politics, Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy, Security Studies, Asian Studies, Oceania Studies, New Zealand, Indo-Pacific
Susanne Klien
Professor
Rural Japan, lifestyle migration, transnational mobility, regional revitalization, new modes of working and living, intangible cultural property
Shunsuke Nozawa
Associate Professor
Ethnography of communication, semiotics of culture, politics of language, popular culture, popular history, voice, contact, linguistic anthropology
Hironori Sasada
Professor
Political economy of Japan and East Asia, foreign policy, agricultral policy, party politics
Michael Schiltz
Associate Professor
Japanese history, economic / financial history, Asian history, digital humanities
Other Instructors who Teach on MJSP
Juha Saunavaara
Associate Professor
Arctic, north, Hokkaido, Japan, infrastructure, connectivity, governance, international collaboration
Michelle La Fay
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences
Religious Studies, Meiji Era Protestantism, Uchimura Kanzo
Peter Firkola
Part-time lecturer
Japanese management, career development, HRM, recruitment practices
Sachiko Ito
Associate Professor, Musashi women’s university
Distribution, marketing, information society, consumers
Caitlin Coker
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences
Movement studies, Performance studies, Affect theory, Dance, Butoh, Pole Dance, Art/Entertainment, Eroticism, Sensation and Imagination
James Letson
Associate Professor
Music subcultures, Community building, Intergenerational relationships, Ethnography, Social theory, Pedagogy
