Faculty

Visiting Research Fellows

Mats Arne KARLSSON
Specialized Field(s)	Modern Japanese literature, Japanese cinema
Current Research Themes	Popular youth films during Japan’s Period of High Economic Growth
Keywords for Research	-

2001	Ph.D., Japanese Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Stockholm University

2002	Research assistant, Stockholm University
2006	Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney
2023	Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

1991	B.A., Stockholm University
2001	Ph.D., Stockholm University

Books

・ The Kumano saga of Nakagami Kenji, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 168 pages, 2001

Articles

・ The Economic Miracle revisited: social-status angst and ambivalence towards high-growth policies in 1960s Japanese youth film, Japan Forum 35(3), 2023, pp.295-313
・ Kinoshita Keisuke's film at the end of the rainbow: love, labour, and alienation at the Yahata Steel Works, Journal of Japanese and Korean cinema 10(2), 2018, pp.163-180
・ United front from below: the proletarian cultural movement's last stand, 1931–34, Journal of Japanese studies 37(1), Society for Japanese Studies, 2011, pp.29-59
・ Writing madness: deranged impressions in Akutagawa's "Cogwheels" and Strindberg's Inferno, Comparative literature studies 46(4), Penn State University Press, 2009, pp.618-644

Other Publications

・ Shōhei Imamura’s Profound Desire for Japan’s Cultural Roots: Critical Approaches to Profound Desires of the Gods, In Lindsay Coleman, David Desser (eds.), Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura, Edingburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2019, pp.159-176