Dr Marcos Centeno

Positions held:

Lecturer, Department of Cultures & Languages

Overview
Overview

Biography

Marcos Centeno joined the Department of Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck as the Japanese Programme director. His latest research project "Japanese Transnational Cinema" was funded by several institutions including Sasakawa and Daiwa foundations, Waseda and the Japanese ministry of education and included several publications and events in London and Tokyo.
He also worked as a lecturer for the Department of Japan and Korea at SOAS, where he also convened the MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural. Also, he was Research and Teaching Fellow at University of Valencia and Research Associate at Waseda University, as well as visiting researcher at Ochanomizu University, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 and Goethe Universität Frankfurt.
Before that, dr. Centeno studied at Universitat de València, Spain, where he received the School´s Extraordinary Award and in Japan, with a Waseda University scholarship. After graduation, he worked in television for several years where he was promoted to director at a young age. His full-length documentary film, Ainu. Pathways to Memory (2014) which revolves around the problems of representation of Ainu culture in Japan was translated into several languages (English, Japanese, Spanish and Italian) and received several prizes by international film festivals and other institutions.

Visiting posts
- Visiting Scholar, Ochanomizu University, 07-2019 to 09-2019
- Visiting Researcher, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, , 04-2010 to 05-2010
- Visiting Researcher, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, France, 01-2010 to 03-2010
- Associate Fellow. , Waseda University, Tokyo, 09-2010 to 09-2012
Professional activities

-Referee for the following peer-reviewed journals and publishers: Open Screens. BAFTSS (British Association of Film , Television and Screen Studies) Journal; Comillas Journal of International Relations; Positions. Asia Critique; Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance (JAFP); Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema; MIRAI, Japanese Studies Journal; Studies in Documentary Film Journal; Archivos de la Filmoteca; KOME. An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquir ; Arts Journal. lMDPI publication; Bloomsbury Publications; KronoScope Journal for the Study of Time; Pensamiento al Margen. Online journal; Communication and Society.

-Jury member for the Ivan Morris Memorial Prize on Japanese Studies (British Association for Japanese Studies).

-2020 AEJE (Asociación Estudios Japoneses en España) Conference. Scientific Board Member.

-Watersprite: The Cambridge International Student Film Festival. Jury member. 2017 and 2020.

-DAAD. German Academic Exchange Service. Referee for Research Fellowship applications.

-Convenor for the “Visual Arts” Section of 2020 EAJS (European Association for Japanese Studies) Conference.

- 2018 AEJE Conference, Centro de Estudios Asia Oriental), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Scientific Board Member.

Professional memberships
- Japan Research Centre, SOAS. Research Associate
- -EAJS (European Association for Japanese Studies) Member.
  -AEJE (Asociación Estudios Japoneses en España). Steering Board member.
  -EAJS (European Association for Japanese Studies). Advisory Board Member.
  -BAJS (British Association for Japanese Studies). Member.
  -BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies). Membrer.
  -AAS (Association for Asian Studies). Member.
  -NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). Member.
  -EAO (Asociación Española de Estudios de Asia Oriental). Member.
Honours and awards
- "Japanese Transnational Cinema" Project, Daiwa Foundation Grant Ref: 197/13307, November 2019
- "Japanese Transnational Cinema" Project, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant Ref. No. 5558., November 2019
- "Japanese Transnational Cinema" Project, Waseda- MEXT's Top Global University Project Fund. with Prof. Norimasa Morita, November 2019
- "Japanese Transnational Cinema" Project, Strategic Research Funding, Birkbeck, November 2019
- Research Funding, Waseda University, November 2011
- Doctoral Fellowship. V Segles Programme. 4 Years, Universitat de València, November 2009
- Waseda University Scholarship. , Waseda University , November 2005
ORCID
0000-0003-1062-0206
Research
Research

Research overview

I am interested in Japanese Cinema particularly documentary film and non-fiction formats, Hani Susumu, film theory, transnationality, representation of minorities, particularly the Ainu people, memory and postwar avant-garde.
I welcome research students and project related to Japanese film and media, cultural studies, comparative literature, particularly with an emphasis on issues related to memory, transnationality, minorities and gender perspectives.

Research Centres and Institutes
- Steering Committee Member, Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image (BIMI)
- Research Associate, Japan Research Centre, SOAS
- Member, Centre for Multilingual and Multicultural Research
Research projects

Japanese Transnational Cinema.

Abstract

PI: Marcos Centeno. Sponsored by Daiwa Foundation (Ref. 197/13307), Sasakawa Foundation (Ref. No. 5558), Birkbeck Research Committee Strategic Funds and Waseda- MEXT's Top Global University Project Fund (in collaboration with Prof Nori Morita).

Funded by
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Outcomes

Special Issue: Centeno, Marcos and Morita, Nori eds “Japanese Transnational Cinema”, Arts, 2019.
Book: Centeno, Marcos and Morita, Nori, eds, Japan beyond its borders: Transnational Approaches to Film and Media, Tokyo: Seibunsha, 2020
Articles and book chapters (6):
-Centeno Marcos and Morita Nori. “Theorising Transnational Japanese Film and Media”. In Centeno Marcos and Morita Nori (eds.) Japan beyond its borders: Transnational Approaches to Film and Media, Tokyo: Seibunsha, 2020, pp. 1-15.
-Centeno Marcos. 2020. “From Japan to Africa: Transnationality in Hani Susumu’s Theory and Cinematic Experience”. In Centeno Marcos and Morita Nori (eds.) Japan beyond its borders: Transnational approaches to Film and Media, Tokyo: Seibunsha, 2020, pp. 113-126
-Centeno, Marcos and Raine, Michael, "Editorial Paper. Developments in Japanese Documentary Mode", Special Issue Developments in Japanese Documentary Mode, Arts, 9 (3), 2020
-Centeno, Marcos. 2019. “Legacies of Hani Susumu’s Documentary School”. In Centeno, Marcos and Raine, Michael (eds.), Special Issue "Developments Japanese Documentary Film", Arts 8(3), 82.
-Centeno Marcos and Morita Nori. “Editorial Paper. Japan and the ‘Transnational Cinema’, Special Issue Japanese Transnational Cinema, Arts, 7(4), 87 (due to 2020)
- Centeno, Marcos. 2019. “The Misleading Discovery of Japanese ‘National Cinema.” In Centeno, Marcos and Morita, Nori (eds.), Special Issue "Japanese Transnational Cinema", Arts, 7(4), 87, pp. 7-20
Event organisation:
-Japanese Transnational Cinema Seminar for the Birkbeck Arts Week at Birkbeck, London 23-24th May 2020.
-Japanese Transnational Cinema, symposium at Waseda University in Tokyo, 20th -23rd July 2020. Website:
Presentations
-Centeno, Marcos. Cross-cultural Seminar Series (Tabunka Kenkyū Seminā), at Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya 17th July 2019.
-“Japanese Transnational Cinema: Consuming Japanese Culture through Japanese Cinema”, Summer Programme, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, 27th July – 9th August 2019.

REPERCRI. Contemporary Representations of Perpetrators of Mass Crimes

Abstract

REPERCRI. Contemporary Representations of Perpetrators of Mass Crimes. University of Valencia. Collaborator. PIs: Dr. Anacleto Ferrer, Dr. Vicente Sánchez-Biosca

Outcomes

-Centeno, Marcos. “Vacíos de la bomba atómica. El Memorial por la Paz de Hiroshima como lugar de ritual”, en special issue Lugares de Memoria, Pasajes: Revista de pensamiento contemporáneo , 2021 (forthcoming)

GREGAL: Cultural Circulation Japan-Korea-Catalonia

Abstract

GREGAL: Cultural Circulation Japan-Korea-Catalonia. Catalan I+D (R&D) Project. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. SGR 2017 – 2019. PI: Dr. Blai Guarné.

Outcomes

Publications
- Centeno, Marcos. 2020. Rediting the War in Asia. Japanese Newsreels in Spain (1931-1945), in Special Issue “El Impacto del Audiovisual Japonés y Surcoreano Contemporáneo”, L´Atalante. Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos no.29, pp. 101-119 .
-Conference Presentations:
-“Barcelona Landscapes in the Japanese avant-garde documentary: Antonio Gaudi (HiroshiTeshigahara, 1984)”, XIII AEJE Conference, UAM, Madrid, 21-23 Nov 2018
- “The Pacific War in the Spanish Newsreel”, AEEAO International Conference, Málaga, 20-22 June 2018.

GEINTEA (Europe-Asia Interactions Research Group)

Abstract

Spanish I+D (R&D) Project: GEINTEA (Europe-Asia Interactions Research Group), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). PI: Dr. Florentino Rodao.

Outcomes

-Centeno, Marcos. Digital content, co-taught course: “East Asian Cultural History. Interactions between Europe and Japan”. 10 hours. Term 3 (Innova Docentia Projec funded by UCM).
-Conference Presentations:
-“Transnational Circulation of Images on the Pacific War”, XIV Association of Contemporary History Conference, Alicante 21 Sept 2018.
-“Comunicación visual de conflictos: la circulación y permutación global de las imágenes de la Guerra del Pacífico”, Congreso Internacional Comunicación, conflictos y cambio social, UJI, Castellón, 19 Dec 2017.
- “Migration of Images of the Pacific War (1941-1945): Re-readings of the Japanese Empire through Spanish Newsreels”, IAAS. Irish Association for Japanese Studies Annual Conference: Asia: Transcultural Interactions. Past, Present and Future, University College Cork, 10 June 2017
-“From Allies to Enemies: The Pacific War seen through the Eyes of Francoist Spain (1939-1945)”, When East Meets West: The Second World War in Global Perspective Conference, King’s College, London, 22-23 June 2017
-Publications:
- “Del Viaje del Turista Al Viaje del Héroe. Mímesis Cinematográfica del Discurso Turístico Japonés Sobre España. El Caso de Andarushia (2011) (‘From a Tourist Journey to a Hero Journey. Film Mimesis in the Tourist Japanese Discourse on Spain: the Case of Andalushia)’, MIRAI Estudios Japoneses, nº1, 2017, pp. 89-107.
-“Migration of Images of the Pacific War (1941-1945): Re-readings of the Japanese Empire through Spanish Newsreels”, Irish Journal of Asian Studies (IJAS), vol. 3, 2017, pp. 1-13.
-“Comunicación visual de conflictos. La masacre de Nankín” (“Visual Communication of Conflicts. The Nanking Massacre”). Comunicación y Cambio Social. Sao Paulo: Universidad Estadual Paulista de Brasil UNESP (accepted on 15.03.2018)

DFG Project: Yasujirō Ozu and the Western Film

Abstract

DFG Project. German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft): Projekts Yasujirô Ozu und der westliche Film (Yasujirō Ozu and the Western Film), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. PI. Andreas Becker.

Outcomes

-Conference Presentations:
- “Method directors. Some notes on Susumu Hani and Yasujirō Ozu’s filmmaking”, Yasujirô Ozu and the Aesthetics of his Time, Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, 29.-30. January 2016
-Publications:
-“Method Directors. Susumu Hani and Yasujirō Ozu: a Comparative Approach across Paradigms” in Andreas Becker (ed.). Yasujirô Ozu and the Aesthetics of his Time, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and Darmstadt: Büchner-Verlag, 2018, pp.125-152.

I+D Project: Media Construction of Charisma in Political Leaders in Periods of Social Transformation

Abstract

I+D (R&D) Project, Spanish Ministry of Education (HAR2012-32593), EU-Merimée Project (29881UE) and French Ministry of Education-CRIMIC (EA 2561 Arts visuels): Media Construction of Charisma in Political Leaders in Periods of Social Transformation. Universitat de València. PI: Dr. Vicente Sánchez-Biosca.

Outcomes

Events organisation:
- Roundtable “Carisma e imagen política. Poderes y contrapoderes del franquismo tardío a la transición democrática”, Casa de Velázquez de Madrid and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 12- 13 June 2014.
- Seminar I+D Carisma y Transición , Universitat de València, 30-31 mayo 2013.
- “La figura del delincuente en la Transición Española: reconstrucción del mito del bandido (1975-1982)”, Jornada del grupo I+D Carisma y Transición , Universitat de València, 30-31 mayo 2013.

Global COE - MEXT

Abstract

Global COE (Centre of Excellence) Program, JSPS, Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT): “International Institute for Education and Research in Theatre and Film Arts”, Waseda University.

Outcomes

- Presentations:
-“Archive Pictures in the Memory of the Japanese Defeat” in Cultural Typhoon 2011 Congress, Kobe Center for Overseas Migration and Cultural Interaction, 23 June, 2011
-“Discovering Minorities after Post-war: First Representations of Korean Residents, Zanichi, in Japanese Cinema” in The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS) 2011, Osaka, The Ramada Hotel, 25 March, 2011.
-Publications:
-“Discovering Minorities in Japan: First Korean Representations in Japanese Cinema” in ACCS. The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. Osaka, IAFOR, 2011, pp. 125-137

I+D Project: Role of the Photomechanical Image in the Memory of the Spanish Civil Wa

Abstract

01/02/2009 －01/02/2013 I+D (R&D) Project, Spanish Ministry of Education (HUM2005/02010)Role of the Photomechanical Image in the Memory of the Spanish Civil War. Universitat de València. PI: Dr. Vicente Sánchez-Biosca.

Outcomes

Presentations:
- “Japan in the Spanish Newsreel: the Francoist Stand towards the Pacific War” in Centeno-Martín, Marcos (coord), Cinema around the Axis, University of Valencia, 14 December, 2011.
- Event organisation:
-International conference Cinema around the Axis, University of Valencia, 7-21 December, 2011.
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

Supervision
Current Supervisions
- Joint Principal Supervisor for 2 Birkbeck students
- external for 1 Birkbeck students
Publications
Publications
Article
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2020) Vicissitudes of modern Japanese studies in Spain: review on the occasion of the Ensayos en honor del profesor Antonio Cabezas Albores de la japonología moderna en España. Reseña con motivo de los Ensayos en honor del profesor Antonio Cabezas. Estudios de Asia y África 56 (1. 174), pp. 167-185. ISSN 0185-0164.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2020) Reediting the war in Asia: Japanese newsreels in Spain (1931-1945). L'Atalante. Revista de Estudios Cinematograficos 29, pp. 101-119. ISSN 1885-3730.
- Fujii, J. and Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Raine, M. and Kodaka, M. (2020) Yanagita Kunio and the culture film: discovering everydayness and creating/imagining a national community, 1935–1945. Arts 9 (2), pp. 54. ISSN 2076-0752.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2020) Reeditando la guerra en Asia. Noticiarios japoneses en España (1931-1945). L´Atalante. Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos (29), pp. 111-119. ISSN 1885-3730.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2019) Legacies of Hani Susumu’s Documentary School. Arts 8 (3), pp. 82. ISSN 2076-0752.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2019) Legacies of Hani Susumu’s documentary school. Arts 8 (3), pp. e82. ISSN 2076-0752.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2019) Challenging eurocentric surveys: the transnational topic in film studies. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Dossier 5 (2), pp. 1-5.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) Introduction. The misleading discovery of Japanese National Cinema. Arts 7 (4), pp. 87-100. ISSN ISSN 2076-0752.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) Contextualising N. G. Munro’s filming of the Ainu Bear Ceremony. Japan Society Proceedings pp. 90-106. ISSN 0952-2050. (In Press)
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) The limits of fiction in the Japanese Avant-Garde documentary. Los límites de la subjetividad en la vanguardia documental japonesa.. Kokoro 27, pp. 1-9. ISSN 2254- 8300.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) The limits of fiction: politics and absent scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960). A film re-reading through its script. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 10 (1), pp. 1-15. ISSN 1756-4905.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) Deceiving ‘Primitivism’. Ainu people in 1910s Travelogues. Annals of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University: Linguistics, Literature and Methodology of Teaching 18 (1), pp. 127-144. ISSN 2065–0868. ISBN 2065-0868.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2017) Gazes outside the representation: early film portrayals of the Ainu People. Orientalia Parthenopea 17, pp. 189-210. ISSN 1972-3598.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2017) Transnational circulation of images of the Pacific War (1941-1945): The Japanese Empire seen through Spanish newsreels. Irish Journal of Asian Studies 3, pp. 1-17. ISSN 2009-8448..
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2017) The fight for self-representation: Ainu imaginary, ethnicity and assimilation. Aphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media 13, pp. 69-89. ISSN 2009-4078.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2014) El «otro» ainu en el cine documental japonés: del redescubrimiento de las minorías en la posguerra al recuerdo como reivindicación en Tadayoshi Himeda. Studium: Revista de humanidades (20), pp. 203-230. ISSN 1137-8417.
Book
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, N., eds. (2020) Japan beyond its borders: transnational approaches to film and media. Tokyo, Japan: Seibunsha. ISBN 4901404326.
Book Review
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) Interrogating forms of dissidence. An approach to physical and mental escapes from Japan.
Book Section
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, N. (2020) Theorising transnational Japanese film and media. In: Centeno-Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, N. (eds.) Japan Beyond its Borders: Transnational Approaches to Film and Media. Tokyo, Japan: Seibunsha. pp. 1-14. ISBN 4901404326.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2019) Tokyo 1958: postwar narratives through Avant-garde documentary. In: Guarné,, B. and Lozano-Mendez, A. and Martínez, D.P. (eds.) Persistently Postwar: Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan. New York, U.S.: Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781785339592. (In Press)
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) Comunicación visual de conflictos. La masacre de Nankín. In: Arévalo Salinas, A.I. and Vilar Sastre, G. and Al Najjar Trujillo, T. (eds.) Comunicación, Paz y Conflictos. Madrid, Spain: Dykinson. ISBN 9788491489252.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) Method directors. Susumu Hani and Yasujirō Ozu: a comparative approach across paradigms. In: Becker, A. (ed.) Yasujirô Ozu and the Aesthetics of his Time. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and Darmstadt: Büchner-Verlag. pp. 125-152. ISBN 9783963171116.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) El arte de la (re)producción. Contribución japonesa al debate sobre qué es la imagen (eizō)” -“The art of (re)production. Japanese Contribution to the debate on what is image (eizō). In: Miguel Borrás, M. (ed.) Qué es el cine?. Valladolid, Spain: Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid. pp. 483-492. ISBN 9788484489825.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2016) Transcultural corporeity in Taiyôzoku cinema: some notes on the contradictions of Japaneseness in the economic miracle. In: Adachi-Rabe, K. and Becker, A. (eds.) Körperinszenierungen im japanischen Film/Presentation of Bodies in Japanese Films.. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and Darmstadt: Büchner-Verlag. pp. 145-162. ISBN 9783941310735.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2016) The rediscovery of the Japanese documentary cinema. The contemporary study of the unknown works of Susumu Hani in Iwanami Eiga. In: Lozano Méndez, A. (ed.) El Japón Contemporáneo. Una aproximación desde los Estudios Culturales,. Barcelona, Spain: Ed. Bellaterra. pp. 33-54. ISBN 9788472907577.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2011) Views of Modern and Postmodern Tokyo: dehumanization, urban and body changes. In: Biserna, E. and Brown, P. (eds.) Cinema, Architecture, Dispositif. Pasian di Prato: Campanotto Editore. pp. 156-161. ISBN 8845612176.
Editorial
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, N. (2020) Japan and the ‘Transnational Cinema’. Arts 9 (2), pp. 50. MDPI. ISSN 2076-0752.
Other
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, N. Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, Nori, eds. (2020) Japanese Transnational Cinema. 7-8, Arts Journal. ISBN 2076-0752.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2014) Ainu. Pathways to Memory. Universitat de Valencia, TAU.

Dr Marcos Centeno

Overview

Biography

Visiting posts

Professional activities

Professional memberships

Honours and awards

ORCID

Research

Research overview

Research Centres and Institutes

Research projects

Japanese Transnational Cinema.

REPERCRI. Contemporary Representations of Perpetrators of Mass Crimes

GREGAL: Cultural Circulation Japan-Korea-Catalonia

GEINTEA (Europe-Asia Interactions Research Group)

DFG Project: Yasujirō Ozu and the Western Film

I+D Project: Media Construction of Charisma in Political Leaders in Periods of Social Transformation

Global COE - MEXT

I+D Project: Role of the Photomechanical Image in the Memory of the Spanish Civil Wa

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Current Supervisions

Publications

Article

Book

Book Review

Book Section

Editorial

Other