Earl Jackson is Associate Professor Emeritus from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Professor Emeritus from National Chiao Tung University. He is the author of Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation, and numerous essays on Japanese and Korean Cinemas, sexuality, New Narrative writers, and the work of Samuel R. Delany. He is the co-editor, with Victor Fan of Nang 7: The Scent of Boys, and the contributing co-editor, with David Desser, of The Films of Kinoshita Keisuke. Times of Joy and Sorrow (Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press). He has worked on Korean independent films as dramaturg, line producer, editor, and actor. The lecture is drawn on his monograph, Critical Conditions: Theory and Practice in Japanese Cinema, now under contract. Jackson is currently completing a monograph on crisis and signification in Japanese genre films.