Kenta McGrath is a Japanese/Australian writer, filmmaker and academic. His research interests include Japanese cinema, the Asia-Pacific War on film, documentary theory and cinematic minimalism.
Experience
2009–present
Lecturer in Screen Arts, Curtin University
Education
2016
Curtin University, PhD
Publications
2020
Santiago Álvarez's Now, in S. Murguia, S. O'Reilly & A. McMenamin (Eds.), A Cuban Cinema Companion (pp. 232-234). Roman & Littlefield.
2020
Legacy of a Law-breaker: Andrew Dominik’s Chopper Turns Twenty, Metro, 203, 108-113.
2020
Sweet, Sour and Spicy Country: Isolation as Performance in Warwick Thornton’s The Beach, Metro, 206, 50-55.
2020
White Pigs and Black Pigs, Wild Boar and Monkey Meat: Cannibalism and War Victimhood in Japanese Cinema, in N. Kiviat & S. J. Rivera (Eds.), (In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach (pp. 71-87). Routledge.
2020
Beyond Borders: Translation and Cultural Authenticity in Hirokazu Koreeda’s The Truth, Metro, 205, 80-85.
2018
Abandon the Young in Tokyo: Yoshitarō Nomura’s The Demon and Hirokazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows, in D. Olsen (Ed.), The Child in World Cinema (pp. 333-352). Lexington Books.
2017
The Confused Nation: Hitoshi Matsumoto’s Big Man Japan, in C.D.G. Mustachio & J. Mustachio (Eds.), Giant Creatures in Our World: Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture (pp. 123-137). McFarland Press.
2017
Riot and Revenge: Symmetry and the Cronulla Riot in Abe Forsythe’s Down Under, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media 13, 13-32.