Daisuke Miyao

Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom , both also published by Duke University Press, and Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover's Introduction to Film Studies .

Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom , both also published by Duke University Press, and Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover's Introduction to Film Studies . See less