Joanne Bernardi

Rochester, New York United States

Associate Professor

Education

My research and teaching focus on Japanese cinema and culture; moving image and media history and historiography; and visual and material culture. I am the author and editor of an open-access, multimedia online archive that uses travel, education, and the production and exchange of images and objects as a lens to investigate changing representations of Japan and its place in the world in the first half of the twentieth century. My work is informed by a familiarity with early and silent film, a background in photography, film and video production, and an interest in moving image archiving and preservation. Specialties: Academic research: Japan (contemporary culture/visual culture speciali...