Hollywood's Impact on 1920s Japanese Fashion (with Lois Barnett)

Lois Barnett was awarded her PhD by SOAS in 2020, funded by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the British Association for Japanese Studies.  Her thesis is entitled 'Consuming the "West": Audiences, Industries, Film and Fashion in Japan (1923-1939)'.  She holds a BA in Japanese Studies and an MA in Global Cinemas and the Transcultural, both from SOAS.  Her work examines the interaction between the consumer-as-audience-member and Japan's transnational film and fashion industries, taking an interdisciplinary approach which considers the role of dress and the cinema in articulating modernity.

Themes that appear in her work include the Modern Girl and Modern Boy, the effect of the onset of sound cinema on costume in the Japanese cinema and the role of body image in marketing sportswear onscreen in the 1930s.

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