NAKAO Shinichi

写真a

Affiliation

Faculty of Education and Human Studies  Department of Regional Studies and Humanities   

Research Interests 【 display / non-display

  • critical theory

  • culture

  • film

  • literature

Graduating School 【 display / non-display

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    1988.03

    University of Tsukuba   College of Comparative Culture   Graduated

Graduate School 【 display / non-display

  • 1988.04
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    1994.05

    University of Tsukuba  Literature and Linguistics  General Literature  Doctor's Course  Accomplished credits for doctoral program

Degree 【 display / non-display

  • University of Tsukuba -  Master of Arts

  • University of Tsukuba -  Bachelor of Arts

Campus Career 【 display / non-display

  • 2018.04
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    Now

    Akita University   Faculty of Education and Human Studies   Department of Regional Studies and Humanities       Associate Professor  

  • 2014.04
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    2018.03

    Akita University   Faculty of Education and Human Studies   Department of Regional Studies and Humanities   Division of Humanities   Program in Humanities   Associate Professor  

 

Thesis for a degree 【 display / non-display

  • The Function and the Deviation of Images in the Reading Process: The Case of The Old Man and the Sea

    中尾 信一 

      1990.03

    Single author

    アーネスト・ヘミングウェイの『老人と海』を題材に、その読書過程において、読者がテクストからどのようなイメージを形成し、それがどのような意味作用を引き起こしているかを分析した。

Research Achievements 【 display / non-display

    ◆Original paper【 display / non-display

  • Irony and Historical Consciousness: Reality and Representation in A Farewell to Arms

    Shinichi Nakao

    Tsukuba Studies in Literature   ( 11 ) 19 - 31   1994.03  [Refereed]

    Research paper (journal)   Single author

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls as a Political Autibiography

    Shinichi Nakao

    Review of American Literature   ( 13 ) 62 - 72   1993.10  [Refereed]

    Research paper (journal)   Single author

  • Rhetoric of "Landscape": On The Sun Also Rises

    NAKAO Shinichi

    Tsukuba Studies in Literature   ( 9 ) 79 - 89   1992.03  [Refereed]

    Research paper (journal)   Single author

  • Rhetoric of Image: On The Old Man and the Sea

    NAKAO Shinichi

    Otsuka Review   ( 27 ) 3 - 14   1991.03  [Refereed]

    Research paper (journal)   Single author

  • ◆University bulletin, Research institution【 display / non-display

  • Roman Holiday as an Allegry: Dalton Trumbo in His "Blacklist" Era

    NAKAO Shinichi

    Memoirs of Faculty of Education and Human Studies Akita University Humanities & Social Sciences No. 78 ( Akita University )    2023.02

    Research paper (university bulletin, research institution)   Single author

    Roman Holiday (1953) is one of the most important works by Dalton Trumbo as a screenwriter in his “blacklist" era. Based on It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra, Trumbo wrote a story about a princess escaping from her loyal family and a journalist trying to write an article about her. There are some differences between both films, while they share one important theme: each main character has a good "virtue". Trumbo consistently kept emphasizing this quality of “virtue" in his works. By defending the value of “virtue" in Roman Holiday, he fiercely denounced and protested the system of the “blacklist" which expelled many talented filmmakers from Hollywood in the 1950s.

  • Film as a Political Allegory: The Chance That Was Taken on Spartacus

    NAKAO Shinichi

    Memoirs of Faculty of Education and Human Studies Akita University Humanities & Social Sciences No. 77 ( Akita University )  ( 77 )   2022.03

    Research paper (university bulletin, research institution)   Single author

    “Blacklist" in Hollywood in 1950's excluded many filmmakers such as screenwriters, directors, and actors, from their jobs. When the film Spartacus was exhibited to the public in 1960, Dalton Trumbo, one of the most famous blacklisted individuals, broke the blacklist by showing his own name as its screenwriter on the screen. In this essay, we will discuss how “breaking the blacklist" happened and what the event meant to Hollywood movie industry and American society in that time. And we will explore the meaning of “allegorical significance" that Trumbo implied in the film by comparing the Spartacus story of slave revolt in the ancient Rome with Trumbo's experiences and thoughts while he was in the blacklist.

  • Representation of "People's Uprising" in Film: What the Movie Joker Dreamed of

    NAKAO Shinichi

    Memoirs of Faculty of Education and Human Studies Akita University Humanities & Social Sciences No. 76 ( Akita University )  ( 76 )   2021.03

    Research paper (university bulletin, research institution)   Single author

  • Gender as "Performativity": An Essay on The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of Desert

    Shinichi Nakao

    Memoiors of General Education Akita University   ( 4 ) 70 - 77   1997.03

    Research paper (university bulletin, research institution)   Single author

Books 【 display / non-display

  • People Going, Coming, and Gathering

    SATO Takeshi, SASAKI Chika, HANEDA Asako, HASEGAWA Akira, NAKAO Shinich

    Akita Sakigake Shinpousha  2023.07 ISBN: 9784870204300

  • Pleasure, Care, and Anxiety: Hemingway and the Technology of Subject-Construction

    WASHIZU HIroko, NAKAO Shinichi et al.

    Tsukuba American Literary Society  2002.06 ISBN: 49212007