February 3, 2014/ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 306 Los Angeles
Grappling with Modernity: Judo and Making the Athletic Body in Pre-War JapanA Colloquium with Prof. Jonathan Zwicker, University of Michigan
Using an analysis of Akira Kurosawa’s debut film, Sugata Sanshirō, which narrates the early history of judo, this talk will explore how judo is central to the ways that new concepts of body and spirit emerge and shift during the decades leading from the Meiji Period through World War II.
310-825-4500
japancenter@international.ucla.edu Sponsor(s): Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies