About Daisuke Miyao Books
Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair of the Literature Department at University of California, San Diego, and the author of Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (2020), Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover's Introduction to Film Studies (2019), The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema (2013), and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (2007).