Hannah Airriess

Email:

hairries@iu.edu

Department:

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Education

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2020

Research Interests

• Japanese film and media, specifically from the high growth era (1954-1971) and recessionary present
• Histories and theories of labor and management
• Media theory
• East Asian transnational media networks

Courses

• E201 Visualizing Catastrophe in Japanese Film and Media
• E330 Approaches to Japanese Animation: Genre, Technology, and Fan Cultures

Awards and Fellowships

• Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, 2019-2020
• Social Science Research Council/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, 2018- 2019

Bio

I specialize in Japanese film and media, with a specific focus on media’s articulation of shifting economic structures and ideas of nation across mid 20^th century East Asia. I am currently working on a book manuscript concerning the figure of the salaryman, or male white-collar worker, staged across mass media in Japan’s era of high economic growth (1954-1971). Using a transmedial approach that draws together studio film with archival material such as serialized fiction, advertising, popular social science texts and management literature, I argue the salaryman emerged as the dominant figure through which political and cultural transformations concerning labor, class, gender, and national identity were mediated in postwar Japan. My research interests also include recession-era media cultures, travel film, and media theory.