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Biography
I gained my PhD in film from The University of Sheffield in 2010 and have taught at several universities around the UK since that time, being a lecturer in Film and Media (Edge Hill University) Film and Television (Nottingham Trent University) and Senior Teaching Fellow in Japanese Film Studies (SOAS University of London). I specialise in East Asian, largely Japanese cinema, but have taught film studies in general at both Under and Postgraduate levels at all the institutions at which I have worked. I am also a freelance film journalist and my work can be found regularly in, among other publications, the Canadian journal CineAction and the New York-based journal Cineaste.
Expertise Summary
East Asian and Japanese Cinema in particular. I am especially concerned with contemporary Japanese popular cinema.
Research Summary
I am just in process og completing papers on Eco-disasters on Japanese film (about representing the un-representable in Akira Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August) and about the Bengali filmmaker Aparna Sen… read more
Recent Publications
2019. Insect Men and Women: Gender, Conflict and Problematic Modernity in Intentions of Murder. In: Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura Edinburgh University Press. 348
2018. Autumn Afternoons: Negotiating the Ghost of Ozu in Iguchi Nami's Dogs and Cats (2004).. In: JINHEE CHOI, ed., Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence First. Oxford University Press. 312
2017. Doubled Indemnity: Fruit Chan and the Meta-Fictions of Hong Kong Neo-Noir. In: Hong Kong Neo-Noir Edinburgh University Press. 266
2016. Directory of World Cinema: India Intellect Books.
BOOKS
Bingham, A., 2017. Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Bingham, A., ed. 2019. Critical Directory of World Cinema: India. Bristol: Intellect.
Bingham, A., ed. 2011. Critical Directory of World Cinema: East Europe. Bristol: Intellect.
Bingham, A., 2017. 'Autumn Afternoons: Negotiating the Ghost of Ozu in Iguchi Nami's Dogs and Cats (2004)'. In, Choi, J., ed. 2017.
Reorienting Ozu: A Master and his Influence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 177-196.
Bingham, A. 2016. 'Doubled Indemnity: Fruit Chan and the Meta-fictions of Hong Kong Neo-Noir'. In: Yau, C.M., & Williams, T, eds. 2016. Hong Kong Neo-Noir. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 77-96
Bingham, A., 2014. 'Cats and Dogs and Wild Berries: New Voices in Japanese Cinema'. In Kelly, G and Robson, C, eds. 2014. Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through. Twickenham: Supernova Books.
233-248.
Bingham, A. 2011. 'Apocalypse Now'. Selavy, V, ed. 2011. The End. London: Strange Attractor Press. 236-250
Bingham, A., 2019. 'Insect Men and Women: Gender, Conflict and Problematic Modernity in Intentions of Murder' in Desser, D and Coleman, C. eds. Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura. Edinburgh: EUP. 56-74.
Bingham, A., 2019. 'Duality and Ambiguity: Prostitution, Performance and the Vagaries of Modernity in Japanese Cinema' in Taylor-Jones, K and Hopkins, D. eds. Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New Takes on Fallen Women. London: Palgrave MacMillan. 67-84.
Current Research
I am just in process og completing papers on Eco-disasters on Japanese film (about representing the un-representable in Akira Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August) and about the Bengali filmmaker Aparna Sen and her adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore's Ghare Baire, an essay designed to explore something of how different, at times almost mutually exclusive, facets of Bengali cinema (the popular and the elite) may be meaningfully cross-pollinated: how the history of this region's cinema may be conceptualised and re-framed through the lens of this film/filmmaker. In addition I am currently working on papers on the Japanese avant-garde director Hiroshi Teshigahara and documentary director Sumiko Haneda. Of the latter I have helped organise a retrospective, conferences and a book, and am writing about her film Into The Picture Scroll. This is in addition to my ongoing book project on re-conceptualising gender in Japanese popular culture. I aim to extend and reframe extent social/cultural types and attitudes thereto and show how they have permeated Jap[anese pop culture and media discourse.
Past Research
My past research has been built around Japanese cinema predominantly - about contemporary Japanese cinema and the ways in which its key genres and filmmakers have entered into dialogic relations with Japanese cinema of the past. I have also contributed work on gender and Japanese cinema in several publications, engaging with new female filmmakers as well as images of masculinity and femininity in the work of directors like Ozu Yasujiro, Imamura Shohei and Iguchi Nami.
ADAM BINGHAM PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Bingham, A., 2017. Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Bingham, A., ed. 2019. Critical Directory of World Cinema: India. Bristol: Intellect.
Bingham, A., ed. 2011. Critical Directory of World Cinema: East Europe. Bristol: Intellect.
PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS
Bingham, A., 2017. 'Autumn Afternoons: Negotiating the Ghost of Ozu in Iguchi Nami's Dogs and Cats (2004)'. In, Choi, J., ed. 2017.
Reorienting Ozu: A Master and his Influence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 177-196.
Bingham, A. 2016. 'Doubled Indemnity: Fruit Chan and the Meta-fictions of Hong Kong Neo
-Noir'. In: Yau, C.M., & Williams, T, eds. 2016. Hong Kong Neo-Noir. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 77-96
Bingham, A., 2014. 'Cats and Dogs and Wild Berries: New Voices in Japanese Cinema'. In Kelly, G and Robson, C, eds. 2014. Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through. Twickenham: Supernova Books.
233-248.
Bingham, A. 2011. 'Apocalypse Now'. Selavy, V, ed. 2011. The End. London: Strange Attractor Press. 236-250
Bingham, A., 2019. 'Insect Men and Women: Gender, Conflict and Problematic Modernity in Intentions of Murder' in Desser, D and Coleman, C. eds. Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura. Edinburgh: EUP. 56-74.
Bingham, A., 2019. 'Duality and Ambiguity: Prostitution, Performance and the Vagaries of Modernity in Japanese Cinema' in Tay-
lor-Jones, K and Hopkins, D. eds. Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New Takes on Fallen Women. London: Palgrave MacMillan. 67-84.
Future Research
No concrete projects in mind at the moment as my current research will be ongoing for a time yet,