Aaron Kerner
Books
Film and the Holocaust cover
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Extreme Cinema (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
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Torture Porn: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation in the Post-9/11 Era (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015).
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Film and the Holocaust (New York: Continuum, 2011)
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Reconstructing Memories, exhibition catalogue (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, Art Gallery, 2006).
Chapters
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“Gojira’s Bones: The Monster as a Vessel of Affective Energy,” in Michael Richardson ed. Traumatic Affect (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming)
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“Rashomon,” in R. L. Rutsky and Jeffrey Geiger eds., Film Analysis second edition: a Norton Reader (New York: W.W. Norton, 2012)
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“Of Child’s Play and the Japanese Catastrophic Imagination: Katsushige Nakahashi’s Zero Project and On the Day Project – Runit Dome,” in Nakahashi Katsushige: ZEROS - Interacting Memories, exhibition catalogue (Tokyo: Asahi, 2006), 54 – 84.
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“Gojira vs. Godzilla: Catastrophic Allegories,” in Mark Franko, ed. Ritual and Event: interdisciplinary perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2006), 109 – 124.
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“Hideaki Anno’s Love and Pop: Enjo-kosai and the Shojo Economy,” in Masami Toku, ed. Shojo Manga: Girl Power! Girls’ Comics from Japan, exhibition catalogue (Chico, CA: Flume Press at Chico State University, 2005): 32 – 35.
Articles
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“Nevermore,” Short Film Studies vol. 2, no. 4 (2014): forthcoming.
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“On a Happy Journey?” Short Film Studies vol. 2, no. 3 (2013): pagination forthcoming. Co-authored with Rachel Mertz Hart.
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“Haunting Mise-en-scene: The Contours of the Holocaust,” Media Fields Journal: Critical Explorations in Media and Space 5 (Fall 2012): no pagination.
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“Takahiko Iimura’s Butoh Films: Cine-dance in Anma (The Masseurs) (1963) and Rose Color Dance (1965),” positions: east asia cultures critique vol. 21, no. 3 (Summer 2013): pagination in forthcoming issue.
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“Aleksander Nordaas’s In Chambers: The Contours of the Holocaust Imaginary,” Short Film Studies vol. 2, no. 2 (2012): 241-244.
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“Sublimity, the Sacred and Violence in Wind,” Short Film Studies vol. 2, no. 2 (2012): 185-188.
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“Defining the Canon of Japanese Post-War Filmmakers,” Nikkei Heritage vol. 21, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 10-11.
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“The Cartoon Logic in Mitko Panov’s With Raised Hands,” Short Film Studies vol., 2, no. 1 (September 2011): 29-32.
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“Katsushige Nakahashi at SF Camerawork,” Camerawork vol. 35, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2008): 46 – 47.
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“The Alpha and the Omega: The Work of Katsushige Nakahashi,” Camerawork vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 7-14.
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Editor of Shinichiro Osaki’s “Katsushige Nakahashi: Anti-Sculpture,” trans. Shoko Okuda, Camerawork vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 15-20.
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“The Depth of Memory: An Interview with Katsushige Nakahashi,” trans. Shoko Okuda, Camerawork vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 21-27.
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“What’s Real About It? Adolescent Female Sexuality in Thirteen,” American Sexuality magazine vol. 3, no. 4 (August 2005).
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“The Scent of Positive Lives: (Re)Memorializing Our Loved Ones,” Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 10, no. 5 (October 2004): pp. 794 - 810. Co-authored with Angela Kelly.
Presentations
June 24 & 25, 2013:
Chief producer, chair, and presenter for “Hijikata’s Butoh” in association with the Hijikata Tatsumi Memorial Archive at Keio University. Screening of Story of Small Pox, Navel and A-Bomb, and Revolt of the Flesh, at the Performance Art Institute of San Francisco.
October 2012:
Opening remarks for the annual SFSU MA conference.
October 2011:
Opening remarks for the annual SFSU MA conference.
March 2010:
Presentation of “Ugliness in Sound Design” at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles.
February 2010:
Presentation of “Wrap me up in sadist knot …” at the University of Leeds, England (at the invitation of Professor Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman)
June 2009:
Presentation of “Minorities and Sexuality,” at Keio University, Tokyo.
May 2009:
Presentation of “Ugliness in Sound Design” at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Tokyo. (Conference canceled due to the H1N1 virus.)
May 2009:
Chair and presenter of “The Work of Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayshi,” San Francisco State University, Cinema Department
March 2008:
Presentation of “Ugliness and the Moving Image,” at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia
May 2007:
Presentation of “Isao Yukisada’s Go and the Korean Experience in Japan,” at the Stanford University Asian Film Festival (May 2007)
December 2006:
Presentation of The Importance of Story-Making at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
March 2006:
Presentation of “Kawaii Attack: Manga Aesthetics and Infantilism in Hideaki Anno’s Love and Pop,” at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, Canada
February 2006:
Co-Chair/moderator of “Globalization and Contemporary Korean Cinema
February,” panel at the Korean Film Festival, Stanford University
February 2006:
Presentation of “Reconstructing Memories: An International Group Exhibition.” in the “Reinvented Memory: Contemporary Practices in Art,” panel at the annual College Art Association Conference, Boston
January 2006:
Presentation of “Reconstructing Memories: Katsushige Nakahashi’s Zero Project 12/13/2006 and The Niihau Incident,” at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii
March 2005:
Presentation of “Butoh and Cinema: Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel and Eikoh Hosoe’s Navel and A-Bomb,” at the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London
March 2005:
Presentation of “The Historical Resonance of Place,” at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu
August 2004:
Lecture on “Kenji Yanobe, Gojira and the Daigo Fukuryu Maru” at the NO WAR annual exhibition, Saitama, Japan
July 2004:
Chair and presenter at the Collapsing Histories Opening Event at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Japan
November 2003:
Chair and presenter at the Collapsing Histories Artists' Panel at the University of California, Santa Cruz
October 2003:
Presentation of “Japanese Sexuality in Popular Visual Culture: Or, How the Japanese Preserve Historical Continuity” presented at the SFSU, BECA, Media Culture Seminar
October 2003
Chair and presenter at the Collapsing Histories Symposium University of California, Santa Cruz
October 2003
Presentation and screening of Barefoot Gen at the University of California, Santa Cruz