DrMats Karlsson

Project Opportunities

Title: Japanese literature and cinema

Summary of opportunity:

Mats Karlsson teaches and carries out research in modern Japanese fiction and comparative literature, as well as Japanese cinema. His other interests range over socio-cultural aspects of contemporary Japanese society.

Opportunity synopsis:

Supervision

• Modern and contemporary Japanese fiction and literary theory
• Japanese Cinema

----------Current Research Projects----------

In the field of Japanese cinema, Dr Karlsson is researching and teaching on a project dealing with popular film during Japan’s Period of High Economic Growth in the fifties and sixties. For a representative article related to this project, see his ‘Kinoshita Keisuke’s Film at the End of the Rainbow: Love, Labour and Alienation at the Yahata Steel Works’,Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema,10:2, 2018.

In the field of Japanese literature Dr Karlsson is working on an ongoing project to re-examine the achievements and inherent possibilities of the so-called Proletarian Cultural Movement at the grassroots level in fields like literature, film, and education. For a representative related article, see his ‘United Front from Below: The Proletarian Cultural Movement’s Last Stand, 1931-1934’, The Journal of Japanese Studies, 37:1, 2011.