About the Project
| Project Title | Benshi: Silent Film Narrators in Japan |
| Description | Professor Kyoko Omori's Benshi: Silent Film Narrators in Japan is a growing digital archive that features a curated collection of historical materials relating to benshi performance and fan culture from their beginnings in the early decades of the twentieth century up to the present. It includes synchronized audio and video clips of historical and contemporary benshi, VR movie theaters, and a digitized collection of ephemera such as theater programs, benshi scripts, and fan ranking charts. |
| Deliverables | online archive VR theater recreation |
| Dates | 2010-23 |
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| Faculty | Kyoko Omori, Associate Professor of Japanese |
| Collaborators | Sacharja Cunningham, LITS Shay Foley, LITS Lisa McFall, LITS Douglas Higgins, LITS Reid Larson, LITS Greg Lord, DHi Peter McDonald, LITS Taylor McDowell, LITS Janet Oppedisano, DHi & LITS Benjamin Salzman, LITS Steve Young, LITS |
| Students | Alex Axton '24 Philip Chivily '23 Liam Garcia-Quish '23 Anthony Hevia '24 Maheen Masoud '25 Ravena Pernanand '21 Tyler Rodenberger '25 Nandini Subramaniam '22 Khuslen Tulga '23 |
| Departments and Offices | East Asian Languages and Literatures Library and Information Technology Services |
