Michael Raine, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Program Directory of Film Studies and is also also faculty in Comparative Literature and associate faculty in Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University. Professor Raine has taught Film Studies and East Asian Studies at the Universities of Michigan, Yale, Chicago, and California-Berkeley. He has published a number of articles on Japanese cinema, with a particular focus on the transition to sound, wartime cinema, and the new wave. He is currently finishing a manuscript, Modernism, Materiality, and Transcultural Mimesis: New Japanese Cinemas, 1955-1964.