Thomas Lamarre

Thomas Mark Lamarre(born 1959) is an American-Canadian academic, author,Japanologistand professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.

Education

LaMarre was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1981 atGeorgetown University.He continued his studies in science and theUniversité de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille IIin France, earning a Master's equivalent degree in Oceanology in 1982, and a doctorate equivalent in Oceanology in 1985.

LaMarre then entered a second doctorate program at theUniversity of Chicago,where he earned a master's degree inEast Asian Languages and Civilizationsin 1987. Chicago granted his second doctorate in 1992.

Career

In addition to teaching, LaMarre is the Major Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill.His on-going areas of research encompass "an emphasis on new modes of spectatorship (fan cultures), production (cooperatives and multi-authorship), aesthetics (multiplanar images), narrative (myth and epic) and distribution (globalization)."

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Thomas LaMarre,OCLC/WorldCatencompasses roughly six works in ten publications in one language and 600+ library holding.

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• Can Writing Go on Without a Mind? Orality, Literacy, Ideography, Japanology(1994)
• Uncovering Heian Japan: an Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription(2000)
• Project Insider(2000)
• Impacts of Modernities(2004)
• Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics(2005)
• The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation(2009)
• The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media(2018)

Honors

• Association for Asian Studies,John Whitney Hall Book Prize,1999.