Professor Kyoko Omori's Benshi: Silent Film Narrators in Japan is a growing digital archive that features a curated collection of historical materials relating to benshi performance and fan culture from their beginnings in the early decades of the twentieth century up to the present. It includes synchronized audio and video clips of historical and contemporary benshi, VR movie theaters, and a digitized collection of ephemera such as theater programs, benshi scripts, and fan ranking charts.
Deliverables
online archive
VR theater recreation
Dates
2010-23
Omeka S
Unity
WordPress
Faculty
Kyoko Omori, Associate Professor of Japanese
Collaborators
Sacharja Cunningham, LITS
Shay Foley, LITS
Lisa McFall, LITS
Douglas Higgins, LITS
Reid Larson, LITS
Greg Lord, DHi
Peter McDonald, LITS
Taylor McDowell, LITS
Janet Oppedisano, DHi & LITS
Benjamin Salzman, LITS
Steve Young, LITS
Students
Alex Axton '24
Philip Chivily '23
Liam Garcia-Quish '23
Anthony Hevia '24
Maheen Masoud '25
Ravena Pernanand '21
Tyler Rodenberger '25
Nandini Subramaniam '22
Khuslen Tulga '23
Departments and Offices
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Library and Information Technology Services
