“James Wong Howe and the Filter: The Asiatic Logic of Film Noir”

Moeko Fujii is a PhD candidate in English at Princeton University, with a focus on film theory and Asian American literature. She is currently writing a dissertation entitled “The Asiatic Logic of Film Noir,” an alternative history of noir and personhood in which racial form shapes the central concerns and legacies of Hollywood noir. Other research interests include the burgeoning category of the “Eastern-Western”—Asian American texts that incorporate conventions from the Hollywood Western. A prolific essayist, Moeko contributes photography and film criticism to print and online journals, including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Criterion, Film Comment, and Aperture.