Dr Rayna Denison
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Lecturer |
R dot Denison at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2798 |
Registry And Council House 3.28 |
Biography
Key Research Interests
Research interests - international circulation of film and television texts and cultures. Japanese cinema is a central research focus, and the relationships between the national and the global with reference to American film and television. Interests in a variety of texts including anime, Japanese cinema, comic book movies and children's film and television, especially animation.
Current research projects include: Manga to the Movies, an AHRC Research Council Funded Project Analysing Japanese Media Franchising (January 2011 - 2013). To find out more information please visit http://www.mangamoviesproject.com/about
Article
Denison, Rayna (2011) Anime Fandom and the Liminal Spaces between Fan Creativity and Piracy. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 14 (5). pp. 449-466.
Denison, Rayna (2010) Anime Tourism: The Studio Ghibli Art Museum and Global Audiences for Anime. Japan Forum ISSN Print: 0955-5803, 22 (3-4). pp. 545-563.
Denison, Rayna (2010) Transcultural Creativity in Anime: Hybrid Identities in the Production, Distribution, Texts and Fandom of Japanese Anime. Creative Industries Journal, 3 (3). pp. 221-235.
Denison, Rayna (2008) Spangled Ghibli: Star Voices in the American Versions of Hayao Miyazaki's Films. Animation, 3.2. pp. 139-46.
Denison, Rayna (2007) The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence: Investigating the Complexity of the Television Body. Mysterious Bodies: Intensities Journal, 4.
Denison, Rayna and Jancovich, Mark (2007) Mysterious Bodies (A Special Edition of Intensities Journal). Intensities Journal, 4.
Denison, Rayna (2006) (Trans)National X Factor: Patrick Stewart, Britishness and the Promotion of X-Men. Critical Survey, 18 (3). pp. 65-82.
Denison, Rayna (2005) Disembodied Voices: The Soundscape and Stars of Princess Mononoke. Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies.
Book Section
Denison, Rayna (2011) No Tights, No Flights: Smallville's Special Effects and the Inter-media Adaptation of the "Super". In: Investigating Smallville: A Superhero for the Teenage Generation. Scarecrow Press, pp. 65-86.
Denison, Rayna (2010) Bollywood Blends: Genre and Performance in Shahrukh Khan's Post-Millenial Films. In: Genre and Performance: Film and Television. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 184-204.
Denison, Rayna (2010) Gurinder Chadha. In: Fifty Contemporary Filmakers (Revised Edition). Routledge, London, pp. 98-106.
Denison, Rayna (2010) Hayao Miyazaki. In: Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers (Revised Edition). Routledge, London, pp. 288-295.
Denison, Rayna (2009) "British to a fang, British to a Whisker": Reconsidering The Muppet Show's National Identity and Authorship through its British Reception. In: Kermit Culture: Perspectives on Jim Henson's Muppets. MacFarland, Jefferson, NC, pp. 154-169.
Denison, Rayna (2008) The Language of the Blockbuster: Marketing, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese Film Culture. In: East Asian Cinemas: Transnational Connections on Film. I B Tauris, pp. 103-122. ISBN 1845116143
Denison, Rayna (2007) Global Markets for Japanese Film: Transforming Miyazaki Hayao's Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi into Spirited Away. In: Japanese Cinema: Texts & Contexts. Routledge, London, pp. 308-322. ISBN '0415328489
Denison, Rayna (2007) It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, it's DVD! Superman, Smallville and the Production (of) Melodrama. In: Film and Comic Books. University Press of Mississippi, pp. 160-179. ISBN 9781578069774
Conference or Workshop Item
Denison, Rayna and Furukawa, Hiroko (2012) From Manga to Movies: New Trends in Collaborative Production in Japanese Media Franchise. In: MeCCSA Conference.
Denison, Rayna and Furukawa, Hiroko (2012) Japanese Cinema Now: Production Trends in Contemporary Japanese Cinema. In: Keeping Japan on the Map, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Conference.
