- Japanese Cinema
- Korean Cinema
- Intermediality
- +۱۴ مورد دیگر
Eugenio De Angelis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he has been a permanent faculty member since September 2024. Previously, he served as a fixed-term researcher and contract professor at the same institution, as well as at the University of Milan. His academic work centers on Japanese and Korean cinema, intermediality, cultural representation, and film festivals. His educational background includes a PhD in Asian and African Studies from Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2013–2017), with a dissertation on the intermedial work of Terayama Shūji. He also holds a Master’s degree (2007–2010) and Bachelor’s degree (2004–2007) in Eastern Asian Languages and Civilizations (Japanese) from the same university, both earned with highest honors. During his studies, he was awarded a JASSO scholarship for advanced Japanese language training at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and completed intermediate Japanese studies in Kyoto. De Angelis’s research explores the intersections of cinema, theatre, and cultural identity in Japan and Korea. His work frequently engages with themes such as disaster representation, urban space, food culture, political activism, and the aesthetics of emptiness. He has published in journals like Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie Orientale and edited volumes from Columbia University Press and Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. His recent publications analyze nuclear disaster narratives, family meals in film, and the role of film festivals in shaping regional identity. The most recent articles reflect a consistent focus on Japanese cinema from the 1960s to the present, with attention to directors like Terayama Shūji, Shinoda Masahiro, and Kinoshita Keisuke. Topics span political radicalism, postwar identity, intermedial experimentation, and the cinematic representation of food and urban space. His scholarship combines close textual analysis with broader cultural and theoretical frameworks. He has received the Premio Fosco e Mieko Maraini for the best PhD research project on Japan by an Italian student (2015). He regularly presents at international conferences and has organized academic events on Japanese leftist activism and disaster cinema. De Angelis has supervised undergraduate and graduate courses in Japanese language, cinema, and cultural studies. He has curated film series on Korean cinema and organized academic panels on Japanese film and culture. He was a research fellow for the "Cultural and Economic Policies in Major East Asian Film Festivals" project and has collaborated with institutions such as the King Sejong Institute and the Korean Film Archive. His academic service includes organizing international symposia, curating film screenings, and contributing to cultural outreach programs. He has been an active participant in the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA) conferences and has held visiting research positions at Waseda University and Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo.
