Professor Jennifer Coates

School of East Asian Studies

Professor in Japanese Studies

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jennifer.coates@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Jennifer Coates
School of East Asian Studies
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
91探花
S3 7RA
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I am a Professor of Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of 91探花. My books include Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964 (Hong Kong University Press, 2016) and Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), as well as co-edited volumes Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen (Routledge, 2021 with Ben-Ari, E.) and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (Routledge, 2019 with Fraser, L., and Pendleton, M.).

I am an AHRC Innovation Scholar and recipient of the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts. My wider research interests include Japanese and East Asian cinema, photography, gender studies, filmmaking, and ethnographic methods. Before joining SEAS, I studied, researched, and taught in many areas of the world: as an AHRC Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (2012), a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian National University (2011), Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University (2014-2018), and Senior Lecturer in Japanese Arts, Cultures, and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures at the University of East Anglia.

Qualifications

MA (University of Glasgow), MA (SOAS, University of London), PhD (SOAS, University of London)

Research interests

My research and teaching is situated at the intersection of Japanese Studies, Film Studies, History, History of Art, and Anthropology, and can best be characterized as Japanese Cultural Studies. My work takes an interdisciplinary approach drawing from ethnography, art history, and museum studies as well as film studies. I use Japanese language and visual communications in my research practice and dissemination, with training in research-led filmmaking which resulted in a short documentary film on postwar cinema culture (When Cinema Was King, 2018). My collaborative research and editorship includes work in the fields of memory studies, gender studies, and politics, as well as pedagogy.

I am currently working on a project titled "'Japan' Outside Japan: Celebrity, Star Persona, and Curatorship in the Transmission of Japanese Arts and Cultures" funded by the Philip Leverhulme Prize. This project explores the use of a persona studies approach for understanding the perception and consumption of Japanese cultures outside Japan. Under an AHRC Innovation Scholars award I am currently partially seconded to Takero Shimazaki Architects to undertake research on "‘Japan’ in the Built Environment."

Publications

Books

  • Coates J (2022) Film viewing in postwar Japan, 1945-1968: an ethnographic study. Edinburgh University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2016) Making icons : repetition and the female image in Japanese cinema, 1945–1964. Hong Kong University Press. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

  • Buchheim E & Coates J (Ed.) (2023) War Memory and East Asian Conflicts, 1930–1945. Palgrave Macmillan. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J & Ben-Ari E (Ed.) (2021) Japanese visual media : politicizing the screen. Abingdon: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J, Fraser L & Pendleton M (Eds.) () . Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Coates J (2024) . Screen, 65(3), 352-372. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2023) Voices from an Unusual Archive: University Film Circle Writings, 1945-1960. Asia-Pacific Journal : Japan Focus, 21(6). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2023) . The Journal of Asian Studies. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2023) Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema. JAPAN REVIEW, 38, 246-248. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2022) . Journal of Gender Studies. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2022) . Technology and Culture, 63(3), 910-911. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J, Nardy DT & Coates J (2021) . Open Screens, 4(1). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2019) . U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, 54, 6-28. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2019) . US-Japan Women's Journal, 54(1), 3-5. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2019) Quietly Critical: Ten Years Japan. Frames Cinema Journal, 15. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2019) . Arts, 8(1). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mostafanezhad M, Coates J & Coates J (2018) . International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 6(3), 219-236. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2018) Setsuko Hara vs. the Press: The Post-war Trolling of a Wartime Icon. Frames Cinema Journal, 13. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2018) . Japan Forum, 30(2), 224-239. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2017) . Cultural Studies, 32(1), 105-125. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2017) The fragmented family on film: Kinoshita Keisuke's Nihon no Higeki (The Tragedy of Japan) (1953) and the antecedents of the contemporary fragmented family in Japan. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 40. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2017) . Japanese Studies, 37(3), 353-369. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2017) Socializing the audience: Going to the cinema in post-war Japan. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 14(2), 590-607. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2016) . U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, 50(1), 29-53. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2014) . Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 6(1), 23-38. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2013) . Media, War & Conflict, 6(3), 233-248. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Ben-Ari E & Wah Wong H (2023) In Ben Ari E & Wong H-W (Ed.), Cultural Intermediaries in East Asian Film Industries, (pp. 52-71). London: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J & Buchheim E (2023) Introduction: Engaging with War Memory and the Legacies of East Asian Conflicts, 1930-1945 In Coates J & Buchheim E (Ed.), War Memory and East Asian Conflicts, 1930–1945 Palgrave Macmillan RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J & Coates J (2023) Re-Presenting Sino-Japanese Relations through Flavors of Youth, TRANSNATIONAL EAST ASIAN STUDIES (pp. 169-183). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J, Hsieh H, Lee S-A & Taylor-Jones K (2023) The Pan-Asian 'Miss Granny' Phenomenon, EAST ASIAN FILM REMAKES (pp. 272-290). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2022) (pp. 316-333). Wiley RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J & Ben-Ari E (2022) Japanese Visual Media Politicizing the Screen Introduction, JAPANESE VISUAL MEDIA (pp. 1-12). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2022) Representing Japan: Stereotyping and self-stereotyping in the many careers of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present (pp. 224-244). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2021) , Cultural Intermediaries in East Asian Film Industries (pp. 52-71). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2021) Politicizing the audience? Film fans’ experiences of cinema in the 1960s In Coates J (Ed.), Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen (pp. 180-200). London: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2021) Cultural memories of occupation in the Japanese cinema theatre, 1945-52. In Taylor J (Ed.), Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue (pp. 75-96). London: Bloomsbury Academic. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2020) In Otmazgin N & Ben-Ari E (Ed.), Creative Context : Creativity and Innovation in the Media and Cultural Industries (pp. 101-117). Springer RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2020) The Yakuza Film: A Genre 'Endorsed by the People' In Phillips A & Fujiki H (Ed.), The Japanese Cinema Book (pp. 348-360). London: British Film Institute. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2020) Bodies in the Dark: The Postwar Cinema Audience and the Body as ‘Ground Zero’ In Holca I & S?PUNARU T?MA? C (Ed.), Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture (pp. 237-257). Lexington RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J, Fraser L & Pendleton M (2020) Gender and culture in Japan today INTRODUCTION, ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO GENDER AND JAPANESE CULTURE (pp. 1-7). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J, Fraser L & Pendleton M (2019) In Coates J, Fraser L & Pendleton M (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (pp. 1-7). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J & Haapio-Kirk L (2019) In Coates J, Pendleton M & Fraser L (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (pp. 240-250). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2019) The Making of an Auteur: The Early Films (1958-1959), Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura (pp. 21-40). Edinburgh University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2018) Alternative Viewership Practices in Kyoto, Japan, The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema (pp. 221-241). Palgrave Macmillan, London RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J & ジェニファー コーツ)( (2016) 時を超えて出会いは再び訪れる:李香蘭/山口淑子/シャーリー?ヤマ グチ In Wada I & Katsura K (Ed.), 他者との邂逅は何をもたらすのか: 「異文化接触」を再考する (pp. 18-48). Showado RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2015) Pleasures of Recognition and Mediation in the Spectacle of the Nation In Drummond P (Ed.), The London Film and Media Reader 3: The Pleasures of the Spectacle The London Symposium RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

  • Coates J (2019) . The Journal of Japanese Studies, 45(2), 415-419. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2014) . The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 15(1), 94-96. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coates J (2012) Noriko J. Horiguchi, Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body (Review). Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 30. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Allan J (2012) . The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 13(3), 299-301. RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching activities

On leave until 2025.