Thomas Lamarre
Thomas Mark Lamarre (born 1959) is an American-Canadian academic, author, Japanologist and professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.[1]
Education
LaMarre was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1981 at Georgetown University. He continued his studies in science and the Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II in France, earning a Master's equivalent degree in Oceanology in 1982, and a doctorate equivalent in Oceanology in 1985.[2]
LaMarre then entered a second doctorate program at the University of Chicago, where he earned a master's degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1987. Chicago granted his second doctorate in 1992.[2]
Career
In addition to teaching, LaMarre is the Major Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill.[3] His on-going areas of research encompass "an emphasis on new modes of spectatorship (fan cultures), production (cooperatives and multi-authorship), aesthetics (multiplanar images), narrative (myth and epic) and distribution (globalization)."[2]
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Thomas LaMarre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly six works in ten publications in one language and 600+ library holding.[4]
- Can Writing Go on Without a Mind? Orality, Literacy, Ideography, Japanology (1994)
- Uncovering Heian Japan: an Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (2000)
- Project Insider (2000)
- Impacts of Modernities (2004)
- Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics (2005)
- The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (2009)
- The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media (2018)
Honors
References
- ^ "Thomas Lamarre | Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations".
- ^ a b c Répertoire de la recherche publique du Québec, LaMarre, June 28, 2010
- ^ McGill, East Asian Studies.
- ^ WorldCat Identities: LaMarre, Thomas 1959-
- ^ John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list
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