PhD Student
Working Dissertation
Title
Revolution in an Empty Movie Theatre: Norms, Institutional Constraints, and the Cinema of Estrangement
Biography
Michael Sooriyakumaran is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto. His research interests include East Asian cinemas, experimental film, melodrama, performance, and documentary film.
Selected Work
- "Inventing the Asian Community: The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival as Discourse and Collective Performance." Asian Cinema 31, no. 2 (2020): 219-234.
- "Movie-Made Japan: Japanese Modernity and Narrative Space in Naruse Mikio's Wife! Be Like a Rose! and Every Night Dreams." Frames Cinema Journal 14, 2018.
Education
MA, York University
BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Cohort
- 2018-2019