Dr Marcos Centeno
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Marcos Centeno joined the Department of Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck as Lecturer in Japanese Studies and the Japanese Programme director, and was responsible for setting up the single honours BA in Japanese Studies and for expanding its "International Experience" pathway by incorporating new partnerships with Japanese universities. He is steering commettee member for the Asociacion de Estudios Japoneses en España (AEJE) and convenor of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) Visual Arts section. I have been a guest lecturer at Nanzan University (Fall semester 2021/22). He is currently leading project on Haneda Sumiko, sponsored by several institutions including Sasakawa Foundation and The Japan Foundation. His previous research project "Japanese Transnational Cinema" was funded by Sasakawa and Daiwa foundations, Waseda and the Japanese ministry of education and included several publications and events in London and Tokyo.
Prior to his appointment at Birkbeck, he worked as a lecturer in film studies for the Department of Japan and Korea at SOAS, where I 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. Before that, I studied at Universitat de València, 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. His full-length documentary film, Ainu. Pathways to Memory (2014) which revolves around the problems of representation of Ainu culture inside and outside Japan was translated into several languages (English, Japanese, Spanish and Italian) and received several prizes by international film festivals and other institutions.
His main research interests revolve around Japanese documentary film, film theory produced in Japan, postwar avant-garde, memory of World War II, transnational cinema and the visual representation of minorities, particularly the Ainu people.
Highlights
Japanese Programme Director
Year Abroad (Japan) coordinator
BIMI Steering Committee member.
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
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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.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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SERENA CENICCOLA
Teaching
Taught UG modules:
-Theorising Japanese Cinema
-Rethinking Japan: Introduction to Modern Japanese Society and Culture
-Advanced Seminar in Japanese Culture and Society
Co-taught modules:
-Understanding Culture: Language and Texts
-Reading Transnational Cultures
-Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality-Culture and Crisis
-Film and Politics
Taught PG modules for the MA Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (MA CLACS):
-Studying Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies in Modern Languages.
-Memory and History.
-Imagining the Nation.
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2021) Vacíos de la bomba atómica. El Memorial por la Paz de Hiroshima como lugar de ritual.. Pasajes: Revista de pensamiento contemporáneo (62), pp. 49-70. ISSN 1575-2259.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2021) 1968 and rural Japan as a site of struggle. Approaches to rural landscapes in the history of Japanese documentary film. The Sixties. A Journal of History, Politics and Culture 14 (2), pp. 151-168. ISSN 1754-1328.
- 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) 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) 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.
- 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 (2017) Contextualising N. G. Munro's filming of the Ainu Bear Ceremony. Japan Society Proceedings 154, pp. 88-106. ISSN 0952-2050.
- 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.
- Centeno, Marcos (2008) La evolución del Katsudo Shashin Benshi. L’Atalante, Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos (7), pp. 37-45. ISSN 2340-6992.
Book
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Raine, M., eds. (2021) Developments in the Japanese documentary mode. New Media. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. ISBN 9783039439133.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Raine, M., eds. (2020) Developments in Japanese documentary film. New Media. Basel, Switzerland: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, N., eds. (2020) Japan beyond its borders: transnational approaches to film and media. Tokyo, Japan: Seibunsha. ISBN 4901404326.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, N. Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, N., eds. (2020) Japanese Transnational Cinema. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. ISBN 9783039361564.
Book Review
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2021) Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips (eds), The Japanese Cinema Book. London: The British Film Institute, Bloomsbury, 2020, 624 pp. (In Press)
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2019) Dialectics of the Goddess in Japanese Audiovisual Culture, Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano (ed.) (2018) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2018) Interrogating forms of dissidence. An approach to physical and mental escapes from Japan.
- Centeno, Marcos (2016) Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister: a Return to the Japanese Classicism.
Book Section
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2022) The Ainu in documentary films: promiscuous iconography and the absent image. In: Desser, D. (ed.) Companion to Japanese Cinema. Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas. Wiley. pp. 271 -293. ISBN 9781118955321.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2021) Cine documental japonés: de los orígenes a la Guerra del Pacífico (1897-1945). In: Vilches Manterola, L. (ed.) Diccionario de Teorías Narrativas II. Sevilla, Spain: Caligrama Editorial. ISBN 9788418152160.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2020) Crónicas de Paisaje. Nuevas formas de subjetividad en la vanguardia documental japonesa. In: Lira, C. and Iacobelli, P. (eds.) Memoria y paisaje en el cine japonés de posguerra. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica. pp. 287-314. ISBN 9789561427075.
- Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo (2020) From Japan to Africa: transnationality in Hani Susumu’s Theory and Cinematic Experience From Japan to Africa. In: Centeno Martin, Marcos Pablo and Morita, N. (eds.) Japan beyond its Borders: Transnational Approaches to Film and Media. Tokyo, Japan: Seibunsha. pp. 119-132. ISBN 4901404326.
- 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.
- 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 Raine, M. (2020) Tracing tendencies in the Japanese documentary mode. Arts 9 (3), pp. 1-15. MDPI. ISSN 2076-0752.
- 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 (2014) Ainu. Pathways to Memory. Universitat de Valencia, TAU.