BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20150121T163106Z DTSTART:20150204T160000Z DTEND:20150204T180000Z SUMMARY:Dr Irena Hayter\, Leeds University - 'The Cinema\, the Department Store\, the Mannequin Girl: Gender and Visuality in Interwar Japan' UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}v12e-i56wso k0-gcs12p DESCRIPTION:Japanese Studies first visiting lecturer of the semester: \n\ nDr Irena Hayter\, Leeds University - 'The Cinema\, the Department Store \, the Mannequin Girl: Gender and Visuality in Interwar Japan'\n\nDuring the interwar years in Japan the department store\, like the cinema\, wa s a vital part of the mobile spectacle of modernity. Both were dream-wor lds (Walter Benjamin) of visual consumption and urban flâneuring\, real or imaginary. Both encouraged new modes of perception and experience tha t would have important effects on gender and subjectivity. My talk will trace the thick intertextual connections between silent era film actress es such as Irie Takako (1911-1995) and the equally glamorous department store fashion models called mannequin girls. I am interested in the tens ion between their visual objectification and commodification and the deg ree of independence and mobility they possessed as quintessential modern girls. Like the film star\, the mannequin girl was a privileged object of male fantasy and projection but also a figure of the greatest ambival ence. She could perform demure femininity\, but could also undermine it. While a male-dominated media attempted to fix her into a primarily visu al economy and discussed breathlessly her legs\, her doll-like passivity and her artificiality\, what the mannequin girl herself did and said pr esents her as an active and autonomous subject\, a politically conscious urban worker. STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:2.5\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR