MINI LECTURE SERIES 「CLOSE-UP JAPAN」ONLINE LECTURE: “Adaptation Studies: from Literature to Cinema – Case Study of Kurosawa Akira’s movies”

LECTURER: Doctor Dao Le Na
Department of Creative Writing & Film and Drama Criticism, Faculty of Literature at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City National University

Joining the atmosphere of Japanese Film Week JAPAN HOUR being presented at 3 theaters of BHD STAR CINEPLEX, on October 24, The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam proudly presents an online lecture “Adaptation Studies: from Literature to Cinema – Case Study of Kurosawa Akira’s movies” by Doctor Dao Le Na, Department of Creative Writing & Film and Drama Criticism, Faculty of Literature at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City National University. This lecture is a part of the mini lecture series “Close-up Japan”.

Thanks to the director’s ceaseless creativity, the adapted movies are continuously and prove its charisma in the hearts of literary enthusiastic audiences. This time, Dr. Dao Le Na will provide an overview of the adaptation studies theory as well as her research the important issues of adaptation through the case of Director Kurosawa Akira – a master of filmmaker and adaptor.

The lecture will be held online, so you can easily participate from wherever you are. We hope you are interested and please register by using the form below.

■ Event Information

Date:                 24 October 2020 (Saturday) 14:00 – 16:00

Venue:               The event will be held online

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Pre-register from here:           http://bit.do/talkkurosawamovie

Free event

Language：      Vietnamese

■ Lecturer Profile

Dr. Đào Lê Na is currently Head of the Department of Creative Writing & Film and Drama Criticism, Faculty of Literature at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (part of the Ho Chi Minh City National University). She is the founder of the University’s Theatre and Cinema club, founder and director of FY Film Fest, a Vietnamese short film festival for young film-makers in Vietnam and founder and co-director of the community art project YUME.

She is the author of some books: The Horizon of Pictures: From Literature to Film through the Case of Kurosawa Akira’s movies (monograph, HCMC National University Press, 2017), The Narrative of Raindrops (novel, Women’s Publishing House, 2019), Screenwriting Techniques (textbook, HCMC National University Press, 2020) and has written numerous essays published in various academic journals. Besides, she is the chief editor of the book Contemporary Japanese and Vietnamese Cinema: Cultural Exchanges and Influences (The Information and Communication Publishing House, 2019).

In 2017, she got LDC fund from annual AAS conference to come to Toronto, Canada to give a presentation about “National identity in confilct: reconstruction King Ly Thai To on Vietnamese screens”. In March 2018 she got the fund from the Japan Foundation to organise a panel about Asian film adaptations in AAS conference (Washington D.C.). In 2019, she was sponsored by ICAS to come to Leiden, Netherlands to present a topic about landscape and film. She was one of 24 young scholars chosen to attend the Summer Research Course in July 2018 and the Winter Research Course in December 2019 in Japan, sponsored by the Japan Foundation. Also, she was one of the most outstanding teachers engaging in community activist in 2019 awarded by Danisa VietNam.

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