[Commlist] Call for Chapter Abstracts - ReFocus: The Films of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

This is a reminder about the Call for Chapter Abstracts for the edited 
volume “Refocus: The Films of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi”.

Call for Chapter Proposals – ReFocus: The Films of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Edited by Yi Song and Zhaoyu Zhu

We are inviting abstracts for an edited volume on the cinema of Ryûsuke 
Hamaguchi, to be published as part of the University of Edinburgh 
Press’s ReFocus series.

As one of the most prominent contemporary Japanese filmmakers, Ryûsuke 
Hamaguchi is known for his narrative restlessness and emotive subjects. 
Since his first award-winning feature Happy Hour (2015), Hamaguchi has 
retained an attention to the delicate sphere of human relationships, 
psychological complexity and emotional landscapes. Influenced by both 
Japanese and global cinematic aesthetics, Hamaguchi experimentally 
explores subjects of connections, loss and desire. While Hamaguchi 
primarily portrays Japanese society, his works have achieved acclaim 
from global audiences and won awards at film festivals worldwide.

The films of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, however, remain largely underexamined in 
critical scholarship, particularly in the English-speaking world. This 
edited volume will serve as the first comprehensive anthology of Ryûsuke 
Hamaguchi’s films, aiming to deepen the understanding of Hamaguchi’s 
narratives, forms and social reflections in both a national and 
international context. We invite proposals on, but not limited to, the 
following topics:

•        Individual features and short films directed by Hamaguchi
•        Aesthetics, performance and form in Hamaguchi’s films
•        Authorship in Hamaguchi’s films
•        Adaption in Hamaguchi’s cinema: Haruki Murakami, Anton Chekhov 
and others
•        Gender and sexuality in Hamaguchi’s films
•        Eco-criticism in Hamaguchi’s works
•        Global reception of Hamaguchi’s cinema
•        Other topics related to Hamaguchi

 Please send an 300-400 words abstract and a 100-150 words author bio, 
to Yi Song <(s2658739 /at/ ed.ac.uk)> and Zhaoyu Zhu 
<(zhaoyu.zhu /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)> by the 31 May, 2025 deadline.
The successful applicants will be notified by 15 June 2025. First drafts 
of papers are expected to be 6000-7000 words and should be submitted by 
28 February 2026.
Any questions can be sent to Yi Song <(s2658739 /at/ ed.ac.uk)> and Zhaoyu Zhu 
<(zhaoyu.zhu /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)>.

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