NAKAO Shinichi

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Affiliation

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

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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

  • culture

  • film

  • literature

  • critical theory

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Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】

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    1988.03

    University of Tsukuba   College of Comparative Culture   Graduated

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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

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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • University of Tsukuba -  Master of Arts

  • University of Tsukuba -  Bachelor of Arts

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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  

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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。

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Research Achievements 【 display / non-display 】

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

    Shinichi Nakao

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

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  • For Whom the Bell Tolls as a Political Autibiography

    Shinichi Nakao

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

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

    NAKAO Shinichi

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

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

    NAKAO Shinichi

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

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  • Poetic Fantasy and Historical Reality in The Spirit of the Beehive: On Their Coexistence and Incompatibility

    NAKAO Shinichi

    Memoirs of Faculty of Education and Human Studies Akita University Humanities & Social Sciences No. 78 ( Akita University )    2026.02

    Research paper (university bulletin, research institution)   Single author

    The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) is the feature-length directorial debut of Spanish director Víctor Erice. This internationally acclaimed work is set in northern Spain around 1940, shortly after the end of the Spanish Civil War and during the dictatorship of Franco. The film was made in 1973, towards the end of the dictatorship, but censorship still existed regarding freedom of expression. The film itself tells the story of a young girl's “rite of passage," woven between fantasy and reality. While the overall atmosphere of the film is strongly fantastical, there are also scenes that reflect the historical reality of the social situation in Spain around 1940. These seemingly incompatible elements, “poetic fantasy" and “historical reality," coexist within the film. The purpose of this paper is to explore how these two elements are harmonized within the film, and conversely, what role the rift between them plays.

  • 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

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    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

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    “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

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    “Violence" in film has been depicted in various ways. In this essay, we will discuss how “violence," especially “people's uprising," is represented in a film Joker (2019). The film tells a story about how a protagonist named Arthur Fleck became Joker as a typical “villain" in “Batman" movies. His violence seems meaningless, but it has one moment when our ordinary recognition of “violence" transforms. By arguing the reversal of its meaning, we will explore a possibility and limit of “violence" in film.

  • 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

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Books 【 display / non-display 】

  • Ideologies of the American Cinema

    HOSOYA Hitoshi, NAKAO Shinichi, MURAKAMI Akira

    Ronso-Sha  2016.10 ISBN: 9784846015619

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

    WASHIZU HIroko, NAKAO Shinichi et al.

    Tsukuba American Literary Society  2002.06

  • Learning Akita: Culture and History

    SATO Takeshi, OHASHI Junichi, NAKAO Shinichi

    Akita Bunka Shuppan  2024.11 ISBN: 9784870226210

  • People Going, Coming, and Gathering

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

    Akita Sakigake Shinpousha  2023.07 ISBN: 9784870204300

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