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Taichi NiiboriDoktorand

Om mig

Mitt doktorandprojekt syftar till att rekonstruera den svenska barnfilmens historia, särskilt genom arkivarbete. Den rådande forskarkonsensusen placerar vanligtvis den svenska barnfilmens ursprung i mitten av 1940-talet – en period då den svenska barnkulturen började få internationell spridning och då barnfilmen etablerades som en bredare nationell diskurs. Det fanns emellertid flera filmer som redan före denna tidpunkt benämndes som barnfilmer. Redan under 1920-talet uttryckte dessutom dessa filmer former av ”svenskhet” i sin samtida kontext. Även om svensk barnfilm ofta förknippas med den nationalromantiska ideologi som växte fram kring sekelskiftet samt med folkhemsidealet i 1940-talets produktioner, hade dessa ideologiska strömningar redan kommit till uttryck i tidigare svenska barnfilmer. Genom att belysa fallstudier från 1920-talet avser projektet att ge ett historiskt djup åt forskningen om svensk barnfilm. 

Keywords: Children's Film, Early Cinema, Swedish Film, Cinema History, Social History, Women's Cinema, Critical Sociology, Pierre Bourdieu, Genre Studies, Modernism, Childhood Studies, Swedish National Romanticism

 

Education and Qualifications

2023–Present — PhD Candidate in Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Dissertation supervised by Malin Wahlberg and Joel Frykholm
Section for Cinema Studies, Department of Media Studies

2019–2021 — Master of Arts in Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Section for Cinema Studies, Department of Media Studies

2014–2016 — Master of Arts in Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Cultural Sciences of Theatre and Film Arts, Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences

 

Journal Articles, Dissertation, and Book Chapters

  1. Niibori, Taichi. “Reframing Early Swedish Children’s Film History: The Dragonfly and the Fluidity of Genre.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 15, no. 2 (2025): 101–126. In print. (Journal Article) [English]
  2. Niibori, Taichi. “Swedish Children’s Films: The Provenance and Genre Establishment.” In 64 Chapters for Understanding Sweden: Area Studies, edited by Makoto Murai, 306–310. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2024. (Book Chapter) [Japanese]
  3. Niibori, Taichi. “The Excavation of New Swedish Children’s Film History: Exploring the Ambiguous Generic Identity of Children’s Films in Sweden from 1914 to 1923.” MA diss., Stockholm University, 2021. (Degree Thesis) [English]
  4. Niibori, Taichi. “Conceptualisation of Children’s Films in Sweden: The Beginning and the First Cluster.” Balto-Scandia 37 (2020): 87–102. (Journal Article) [Japanese]
  5. Niibori, Taichi. “Chapter 53: Pippi Longstocking (1970).” In Eiga no Naka no ‘Hokuo’: Sono Kyozō to Jitsuzō (The Nordicness in Film: False and Real Images), edited by Makoto Murai, Miho Oshima, Mutsuo Sato, and Nobushiki Yoshitake, 232–235. Tokyo: Takanashi Shobo, 2019. (Book Chapter) [Japanese]
  6. Niibori, Taichi. “Tracing the Dawn of Children’s Films in Sweden.” Balto-Scandia 34 (2017): 1–18. (Journal Article) [Japanese]
  7. Niibori, Taichi. “Children’s Films in Sweden from the 1920s to 1940: A Comparison with the Context of Japanese Children’s Films.” MA diss., Waseda University, 2016. (Degree Thesis) [Japanese]
  8. Niibori, Taichi. “A Gleam of Children’s Film History: Signs of the Ideal ‘Children’s Cinema’ in Japan before 1940.” Engeki-eizō: Studies on Theatre and Film Arts 57 (2016): 1–27. (Journal Article) [Japanese]
  9. Niibori, Taichi. “Swedish Films in the 1930s: The Relationship between Social Background and Film Genre.” Eigagaku: Film Studies 29 (2015): 4–20. (Journal Article) [Japanese]

 

Conference Papers and Other Contributions

  1. Niibori, Taichi. “The Negotiated Identity of Children's Film: The Conflict Between Adult Desire and Child Audiences in Early Swedish Cinema.” Paper presented at HoMER 2025 Conference: Cinema and Conflict, Galatasaray University, July 2025.
  2. Niibori, Taichi. “Public Myths of Woman in Early Swedish Cinema: Mischievous Children and the Contemporaneous Ideal of Motherhood in Pauline Brunius’ 1920s Comedies.” Paper presented at Women and the Silent Screen XII, Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Antwerp, and Cinematek, June 2025. 
  3. Niibori, Taichi. “The Genealogy of Children’s Film in Sweden: The Emergence of a Genre Label and Its Relation to Child Audiences in the Mid-1910s.” Paper presented at BIN-Norden Conference, Stockholm University, May 2025. 
  4. Niibori, Taichi. “Reframing Swedish Children's Film History through Women's Agency: Ester Julin and The Lucky Children (1926).” Paper presented at The Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, The Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, April 2025. 
  5. Niibori, Taichi. “Early Swedish Children’s Cinema History (PhD Project).” Short presentation at Book Launch Event Swedish Children's Cinema: History, Ideology and Aesthetics, Filmhuset, November 2024. 
  6. Niibori, Taichi. “Sovereignty and Childhood Aesthetics: Analysis of The Dragonfly (Trollsländan, Pauline Brunius, 1920).” Paper presented at International Workshop for PhD Students, Stockholm University, October 2024. 
  7. Niibori, Taichi. “The Formation of a Child Audience in Sweden, and the ‘Educational’ Strategy of Svensk Filmindustri’s School Film Department.” Paper presented at the 50th Convention of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2024.
  8. Niibori, Taichi. “Mrs. Andersson’s Charlie and the Contemporaneous Conception of Children's Films in Sweden.” Paper presented at the 49th Convention of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences, Meiji Gakuin University, 2023.
  9. Niibori, Taichi. “Celebrating 100 Years of Swedish Children's Films: Proposing a New Perspective on Their Beginnings.” Paper presented at the Association for Balto-Scandinavian Studies (online), 2022.
  10. Niibori, Taichi. “Teenage (2013).” Movie Mayonnaise 1 (2016). Tokyo: Gucchi’s Free School. 
  11. Niibori, Taichi. “Edison to Eiga no Jidai (Edison and the Age of Motion Pictures) by Charles Musser. Translated by Kenji Iwamoto, Chie Niita, and Jun-ichiro Fujita.” Engeki-eizō: Studies on Theatre and Film Arts 57 (2016): 40–41. 
  12. Niibori, Taichi. “Re-thinking Children’s Film History in Sweden: A Discourse Analysis from the 1920s to 1940s.” Paper presented at the Association for Balto-Scandinavian Studies, Waseda University, 2015. 

 

Membership in Professional and Academic Associations

2025–Present: NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies)
2025–Present: BIN-Norden (Nordic Network for Research in Children’s Culture)
2025–Present: Women and Film History International
2024–Present: Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
2024–Present: HoMER Network (History of Moviegoing, Exhibition, and Reception)
2024–Present: NordMedia Network
2019–Present: Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences
2019–Present: Association for Balto-Scandinavian Studies

 

Awards and Research Grants

2024–2027: JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization) Scholarship
2024–2025: Rhodins Minne Scholarship, Stockholm University
2023–2024: Scandinavia–Japan Sasakawa Foundation Scholarship
2020–2021: Scandinavia–Japan Sasakawa Foundation Scholarship
2014–2016: Azusa Ono Memorial Scholarship, Waseda University

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