Marc Yamada
Biographic Data
| ID | 4222879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Yamada |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Yamada |
| SIGNATURE | YAMADA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3646-116X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Before the Quake: Disaster Anxiety in Television Adaptations of Murakami Haruki’s Fiction
Television has mediated the Japanese experience with disaster over the last century. Despite the widespread adoption of social media, terrestrial television remains a primary way for the country to receive news concerning earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural and man-made catastrophes. Serialized on the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), in April 2025, the recent series After the quake (Jishin no ato de) addresses the impact of television o…
Merging matter and memory in cinematic adaptations of Murakami Haruki’s fiction
Recent cinematic adaptations of the fiction of Japanese writer Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) visualize a central narrative theme in his work: the division in Japan's historical imagination between its tumultuous past and its contemporary post-industrial consumer culture. [i] Tony Takitani (Tonî Takitani, 2005) by Japanese director Ichikawa Jun (b. 1948) and Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no mori, 2012) by Tran Ahn Hung (b. 1962) depict how the memory of war…
The post-Aum films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi
The films of Japanese director Kurosawa Kiyoshi in the late 1990s and early 2000s capture the malaise of the ‘lost decade’ (ushinawareta jû-nen) of the 1990s, a period characterized by the end of an economic boom that propelled Japan through two decades of unprecedented prosperity. Facing the decline of high-growth, the country for the first time in two decades could no longer ignore the things that it had suppressed to realize progress: the fail…
Trauma and Historical Referentiality in Post-Aum Manga
Cultural treatments of the 1995 Tokyo subway gas attacks perpetrated by Aum Supreme Truth (Aum Shinrikyō) often reference another tumultuous episode that many argue belongs to the same radical impulse in Japanese society: the violent end to the ‘extremist period’ of the late 1960s and early 1970s, punctuated by the United Red Army’s Asama Sansō incident of 1972. Yet while scholarship and the media have sought to contextualize the gas attacks by d…
The Database Imagination of Japanese Postmodern Culture
This article analyzes examples of literature from the 1980s in light of recent critical emphasis in postmodern studies on hypermedia, a medium of information in which texts, data records, and media files are linked together in a non-linear format. Critics such as Azuma Hiroki associate the decentering impulse of hypermedia with consumer habits in the 2000s; these ideas played a central role in the development of postmodern writing in the 1980s an…
Trauma and Historical Referentiality in Post-Aum Manga
Cultural treatments of the 1995 Tokyo subway gas attacks perpetrated by Aum Supreme Truth (Aum Shinrikyō) often reference another tumultuous episode that many argue belongs to the same radical impulse in Japanese society: the violent end to the ‘extremist period’ of the late 1960s and early 1970s, punctuated by the United Red Army’s Asama Sansō incident of 1972. Yet while scholarship and the media have sought to contextualize the gas attacks by d…
The post-Aum films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi
The films of Japanese director Kurosawa Kiyoshi in the late 1990s and early 2000s capture the malaise of the ‘lost decade’ (ushinawareta jû-nen) of the 1990s, a period characterized by the end of an economic boom that propelled Japan through two decades of unprecedented prosperity. Facing the decline of high-growth, the country for the first time in two decades could no longer ignore the things that it had suppressed to realize progress: the fail…
The Database Imagination of Japanese Postmodern Culture
This article analyzes examples of literature from the 1980s in light of recent critical emphasis in postmodern studies on hypermedia, a medium of information in which texts, data records, and media files are linked together in a non-linear format. Critics such as Azuma Hiroki associate the decentering impulse of hypermedia with consumer habits in the 2000s; these ideas played a central role in the development of postmodern writing in the 1980s an…
The Database Imagination of Japanese Postmodern Culture
This article analyzes examples of literature from the 1980s in light of recent critical emphasis in postmodern studies on hypermedia, a medium of information in which texts, data records, and media files are linked together in a non-linear format. Critics such as Azuma Hiroki associate the decentering impulse of hypermedia with consumer habits in the 2000s; these ideas played a central role in the development of postmodern writing in the 1980s an…
Trauma and Historical Referentiality in Post-Aum Manga
Cultural treatments of the 1995 Tokyo subway gas attacks perpetrated by Aum Supreme Truth (Aum Shinrikyō) often reference another tumultuous episode that many argue belongs to the same radical impulse in Japanese society: the violent end to the ‘extremist period’ of the late 1960s and early 1970s, punctuated by the United Red Army’s Asama Sansō incident of 1972. Yet while scholarship and the media have sought to contextualize the gas attacks by d…
The post-Aum films of Kurosawa Kiyoshi
The films of Japanese director Kurosawa Kiyoshi in the late 1990s and early 2000s capture the malaise of the ‘lost decade’ (ushinawareta jû-nen) of the 1990s, a period characterized by the end of an economic boom that propelled Japan through two decades of unprecedented prosperity. Facing the decline of high-growth, the country for the first time in two decades could no longer ignore the things that it had suppressed to realize progress: the fail…
Merging matter and memory in cinematic adaptations of Murakami Haruki’s fiction
Recent cinematic adaptations of the fiction of Japanese writer Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) visualize a central narrative theme in his work: the division in Japan's historical imagination between its tumultuous past and its contemporary post-industrial consumer culture. [i] Tony Takitani (Tonî Takitani, 2005) by Japanese director Ichikawa Jun (b. 1948) and Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no mori, 2012) by Tran Ahn Hung (b. 1962) depict how the memory of war…
Before the Quake: Disaster Anxiety in Television Adaptations of Murakami Haruki’s Fiction
Television has mediated the Japanese experience with disaster over the last century. Despite the widespread adoption of social media, terrestrial television remains a primary way for the country to receive news concerning earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural and man-made catastrophes. Serialized on the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), in April 2025, the recent series After the quake (Jishin no ato de) addresses the impact of television o…
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