Thomas Mark Lamarre (born 1959) is an American-Canadian academic, author, Japanologist and professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.[1]

Education

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LaMarre was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1981 at Georgetown University. He continued his studies in science and the Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II in France, earning a Master's equivalent degree in Oceanology in 1982, and a doctorate equivalent in Oceanology in 1985.[2]

LaMarre then entered a second doctorate program at the University of Chicago, where he earned a master's degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1987. Chicago granted his second doctorate in 1992.[2]

Career

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In addition to teaching, LaMarre is the Major Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill.[3] His on-going areas of research encompass "an emphasis on new modes of spectatorship (fan cultures), production (cooperatives and multi-authorship), aesthetics (multiplanar images), narrative (myth and epic) and distribution (globalization)."[2]

Selected works

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In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Thomas LaMarre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly six works in ten publications in one language and 600+ library holding.[4]

  • Can Writing Go on Without a Mind? Orality, Literacy, Ideography, Japanology (1994)
  • Uncovering Heian Japan: an Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (2000)
  • Project Insider (2000)
  • Impacts of Modernities (2004)
  • Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics (2005)
  • The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (2009)
  • The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media (2018)

Honors

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References

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  1. ^ "Thomas Lamarre | Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations".
  2. ^ a b c Répertoire de la recherche publique du Québec, LaMarre, June 28, 2010
  3. ^ McGill, East Asian Studies.
  4. ^ WorldCat Identities: LaMarre, Thomas 1959-
  5. ^ John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list