Kidono Tomoyuki (Professor)
How you spend your four precious years at Otsuma Women's university is up to you. If you think well, study well, play well, and care for others without gain or loss, then your student life will surely be a lifetime treasure.
Criticism, Film Studies, Modern Literature
Representational analysis focusing on the relationship between language and images
We still live within the framework of the nation-state to which we belong. However, cinema has no borders. From the moment of its birth, cinema began to exist as a vibrant movement that spans multiple countries and brings diverse cultures together. If the realisation of a multicultural society that never excludes others with different values is our unfulfilled dream, cinema has been depicting it on the screen in various forms since the beginning. Will our dream really come true one day, beyond political interests and economic gain? Let's think about it while studying various films from around the world.
