Document Type
Contest Entry
Publication Date
Spring 2026
Abstract
This is Thomas Buchanan's submission for the 2026 Eric M. Scandrett Graduate Research Prize, which won second place. It contains their essay on using library resources, a summary of their research project on how a generation of Japanese filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s borrowed the formal strategies of Hollywood film noir to mount a critique of U.S. Cold War policy, and their bibliography.
Thomas is a student in the Master of Arts in Film & Media Studies program at Chapman University. Their faculty mentor is Dr. Emily Carman.
Thomas' thesis is the scholarship that emerged from the research discussed in this contest entry.
Recommended Citation
Buchanan, Thomas Graham, "2nd Place Contest Entry: "Destablizing U.S.-Japan Relations: Nikkatsu Film Noir as Postwar Social Critique"" (2026). Eric M. Scandrett Graduate Library Research Prize. 10.
https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/scandrett_graduate_library_research_prize/10
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