Alexander Zahlten | East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Alexander Zahlten's research interests center on film and audiovisual culture in East Asia, with a focus on Japan. His work explores fundamental shifts in how we engage with media through the connections between larger economic, social, and institutional structures and media aesthetics. Zahlten is especially interested in the experience of media ecologies, and his recent work touches on topics such as film's connections to other media, 'amateur' production, or the history of the connection of electricity and the film industry in Japan. Zahlten's publications have examined the role of postcolonial fantasy in Korean “remakes" of Japanese films, the role of a character such as Doraemon as shared media memory in East Asia, the metaphors of world in the media mix environment of Japan, the history of German sexploitation cinema, or poststructuralist media theory in 1980s Japan. Recently, Zahlten has co-edited the volume Media Theory in Japan (Duke University Press, 2017). His monograph The E

Alexander Zahlten's research interests center on film and audiovisual culture in East Asia, with a focus on Japan. His work explores fundamental shifts in how we engage with media through the connections between larger economic, social, and institutional structures and media aesthetics. Zahlten is especially interested in the experience of media ecologies, and his recent work touches on topics such as film's connections to other media, 'amateur' production, or the history of the connection of electricity and the film industry in Japan. Zahlten's publications have examined the role of postcolon