Daisuke MiyaoDaisuke Miyao is the Chair of the Literature Department at UCSD and the author of Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (2020), Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies (2019), The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lightingand Japanese Cinema (2013), and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (2007). Read More Read Less